Friday - Slim pickins today

Friday - Slim pickins today - I'm taking my son to Cub Scout camp for the weekend.

It amazes me sometimes - working as I do as a software designer, and having nine computers at home - how rare it is that I'm completely unplugged for over a few hours. I'm not even a real robo-geek - I don't own a cell phone, a PDA or any video games, or even a working TV at the moment - and yet I'm usually close enough to a computer that I can check my email the vast majority of the day, should I want to.

In the next week:

• My "No TV" experiment - year two!
• The New Springsteen album
• Hopefully, me - after camp

Grrrrr, Part 5 James Lileks bleats about public opinion surveys.

Bizarre - Bill Clinton says he'd "fight and die" for Israel.

Nothing wrong with the sentiment, by itself, perhaps. But coming from a former president, one who tried mightily to make peace in the Middle East his legacy, one who's on the record trying to effect a diplomatic solution that includes all the parties involved, this strikes me as an incredibly impolitic statement.

Assuming it's true, of course.

Well, that should settle people down nicely, shouldn't it?