Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

Experience Kids These Days Society Technology

Do Kids Today Know This?

A couple of years ago, when I was stupid enough to still have HughesNet Gen 4, I had yet another service outage. At first I thought it was just my email which is currently provided by JustHost.com. Nope, I couldn’t get anywhere. I enter the IP address of my HughesNet…

Roland HughesJanuary 2, 2018September 22, 2017

Experience Stories

Our Last Goodnight

Goodbye my friend. My best friend. You missed me oh so much when I was gone for months at a time with work. I could tell by the way you greeted me when I finally came home. True, you had the rest of the family to keep you company, not…

Roland HughesJanuary 1, 2018January 2, 2018

Experience Humor

0 For 16

I’m not a sports fan, but when you hear on the news a team just finished the season 0 for 16 even a non-fan has got to take notice. A season like that defines the absolute bottom of the league. It reminded me of my Mad Magazine reading days when…

Roland HughesJanuary 1, 2018January 1, 2018

Experience Fiction Technology

Wind Writers

There are few people in America, perhaps around the industrialized world, who haven’t at least heard of the “Wind Talkers” story. There are perhaps fewer still who believe everything from World War II has been declassified. We are now entering an era where we hear about the tiniest things which…

Roland HughesJanuary 1, 2018January 1, 2018

Film Reviews Reviews

Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

★★★★☆ The holiday shutdown at my client site happily coincided with GameFly sending me Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. I know, some critics give this only 2 stars, but I have to give it a full 4 stars. This is a big block o’ cheese and it revels in…

Roland HughesJanuary 1, 2018February 9, 2021

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

In Memory of – 2017

It has become something of a somber tradition for news and on-line media outlets to compile a list or collage of those we lost during the year. The very young find this a stupid tradition. For them it is a silly waste of time. The young start to notice faces…

Roland HughesDecember 31, 2017

Experience Fiction Stories

Morphing of Thought and Memory

Given this post will be displayed on New Years Eve I thought it an appropriate topic of discussion. As humans go through life our thoughts morph over time. Some say it is due to growth and learning while others will tell us we change our views because we lack conviction,…

Roland HughesDecember 31, 2017December 31, 2017