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.

Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Harvey Harvey Harvey

Every now and then Ollie writes a post which becomes a little mind worm and forces me to write another post. He even put “worm” in the title of this one to help ensure it dug its way into my brain. I must admit I don’t watch today’s news media.…

Roland HughesOctober 26, 2017

Experience

Those Nagging Little Questions – Chapter 4 – How Often Should I Write?

The short answer for me is that I binge write. I will go days, sometimes months, without writing a blog post or chapter for another book. The Sunday posts you read from me on this blog were mostly written during the span of Christmas 2016 through the first week of…

Roland HughesOctober 22, 2017September 22, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Cheap Wine May Disappear for a While

Normally I couldn’t care a whit about California, well, I would care even less about it if my two cousins would come to their senses and return to America from it. Hollywood movies aren’t even shot in Hollywood anymore so each day California has even less to like about it.…

Roland HughesOctober 22, 2017

Experience Publishing Society Stories Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

A Never Ending Supply of Orphans

The Internet and cheap computers enables any moose with ears to write and publish without editing pretty much anything they want. Content on the Internet seems to double every six months while the quality of the Internet seems to be cut by half in half that time. So much drivel…

Roland HughesOctober 19, 2017October 18, 2017

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

We Moved On

This post was inspired by Ollie’s “Dear Eddie” post. While it is not a complete answer and it is probably too late on a Sunday for me to be in glorious writing mode, I wanted to take a run at it. Perhaps others can chime in with their own tales…

Roland HughesOctober 16, 2017December 6, 2025

Experience Stories

Those Nagging Little Questions – Chapter 3 – What’s Wrong With This?

A writer of any genre, even a technical writer, must continually ask themselves this question. Be certain your readers are. How did your character go from naked in the bedroom to fully dressed in the living room in only one paragraph which mentioned nothing about getting dressed? Why was the…

Roland HughesOctober 15, 2017September 22, 2017

Publishing Society Stories

How Many Years Out Do You Plan Your Story Arcs?

I love great science fiction. Not just things people call great science fiction because of the special effects, but great science fiction. Recently I broke down and purchased Dr. Who seasons 1-9. Yes, I had seen many of them and many of them more than once, but, I decided it…

Roland HughesOctober 14, 2017