What December 2025 Means To Me

Throughout December there was very little frost in the mornings, the weather was strange for that time of the year in Britain. Some trees were confused and started to open their flowers as if it were spring because roughly in the middle of the month the temperature increased to 10°C during the day time. 

I saw some Iranian men protesting in London a few times. They were holding up the old Iranian flag with the golden lion holding a sword and partially eclipsing the sun on the horizon; it was the flag that identified the nation before the Iamist ayatollah regime took control of the country at the end of the '70s.  They were making their intentions very clear to everyone, they want the regime to end and the king to return. Later I saw the protests were widespread in that country. They were sick of the leader spending all the countries wealth arming militant groups and spreading hate about Israel, the infrastructure of the country has not improved since 1980 and they were now facing very high inflation and supply issues. 

There was also a lot of tension between USA and Venezuela, the USA were demanding suspicious boats identify themselves and then firing missiles at the boats when they didn't respond. They were trying to shut off the drugs entering the country I think. 

Just the other Day I learned that the Americans captured Nick Maduro himself and the venesualan people seemed happy about that. I was given the impression that he sends his opposition candidates to jail so he could fix his terms in power.  He also seized the large service companies like the internet and oil producers and ran them into the ground like a typical communist would. 

Let's keep our chins up for 2026. Happy times for a while? Who knows? Whatever will be, will be. 

First Bit of January

It is the first week of January and the winter appears to be returning to normal, the temperature is dropping down close to 0°c and there is a cold chill in the air. We recently had a new thermostat installed in our home. The Goldilocks temperature for us is 22°c, we consider 22 °c to be a comfortable temperature. All parts of our heating system conspire to keep the temperature at 22°C. A boiler gets a signal from the thermostat when it drops below 22, then it burns gas and heats up water and a pump pushes the hot water around our home until the thermostat reaches 22°c, then it stops and waits. 

I was thinking machines are driven by purpose, they don't possess malice or cunning, they're not sly or evil like people. 

Then I was thinking about the ZX81 and the ZX spectrum, the cheap micro computers that were popular in Britain during the '80s. They used cassette tapes that played tones to encode data through  an audio socket. I was thinking that those computers didn't care where the sound was coming from, I could have a sound file of the game codes on my smart phone and play it to the computer through the audio jack and it would work the same. It is even possible for a radio station to play the sound of the game codes and it would still load the software if it was connected to the radio with and audio cable. 

The older ZX81 computer was very simple, very small memory, black and white screen with no sound and people tried to push the limits of the hardware to see how far they can go. Someone managed to make a first person dungeon game on there called monster maze, wow. This is a video I watched on YouTube:  Video about ZX81 games.