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Please Hold While I Transfer This Call to Homeland Security

Oh come on. You’ve all gotten those annoying phone calls where someone calling from a boiler room in wretchedly broken English utters something along the lines of This is Jim calling from technical support of Windows company. I don’t remember the name, but that is the line I got most…

Roland HughesMay 13, 2018May 6, 2018

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The New York Times Finally Catches Up to Midwest Sensibility

Anyone who reads this blog or my geek blog knows I have been railing against Amazon.com for years. Back when Linked-In still mattered and there was a writer’s group I belonged to on there I was notorious for “educating” the “authors” trying to play the Amazon lottery. You know, those…

Roland HughesMay 9, 2018May 8, 2018

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Infinite Exposure – Pt. 21

This might be India, but he would not have a trial here. At best he would get a brief pass in front of news cameras with officials denouncing him as a terrorist, then he would be executed. The “best” situation didn’t happen much anymore. John knew several of his co-workers…

Roland HughesMay 8, 2018February 9, 2021

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Infinite Exposure – Pt. 20

A Cold Calculation of Winter Nedim’s alarm went off around lunchtime. The rest of the week he was allowed to work a late afternoon shift that ran into the evening. He had just enough time to clean up and head for afternoon prayer. He didn’t even mind when his “friend…

Roland HughesMay 7, 2018February 9, 2021

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Do Kids Know This Today – Near Beer

America has always had terrorist groups. Religious extremists Hell bent on “doing God’s work” which is whatever they define it to be no matter how un-Christian their actions. We simply didn’t have good names for them like we have today. One of the earliest terrorist groups went by the name…

Roland HughesMay 6, 2018May 6, 2018

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Infinite Exposure – Pt. 19

When you greedily consume nine other financial institutions, you end up with nine other sets of data centers, some of which are on the same physical block with each other. Your first order of business, not only to eventually “cut costs,” but simply to maintain sanity, is to start consolidating…

Roland HughesMay 2, 2018February 9, 2021

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Infinite Exposure – Pt. 18

Kent Braxton was sitting in his big leather desk chair gazing out his fourteenth floor office window. Kent was only twenty-five, held a Harvard MBA, and came from old money. To everyone who worked for him, this meant Kent was nothing more than a nice suit smiling and schmoozing away…

Roland HughesMay 1, 2018February 9, 2021