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.

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Future Truth – Era of Destructive Consumption

Destructive Consumption – the consumption of goods, services and industries in such a manner it destroys a culture, economy or country. Future truth: Historians and economists will look back and declare the period of time Bill Clinton’s second campaign through several years, possibly a decade from now and declare it…

Roland HughesSeptember 25, 2017September 23, 2017

Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Drug Dealer to God

Oh come on, somewhere in that list of “great book titles you wished you could write” you have something with equal shock value. I used to have a lot of them but I use so many different machines in my travels and work it is difficult to keep them all…

Roland HughesSeptember 24, 2017September 22, 2017

Conspiracy Science Fiction Society Technology

Future Truth – You Could Be Spied on By Your Microwave

Back in March Kellyanne Conway got herself beat up pretty bad by by uttering something along those lines. Our national media, which seemed to prefer a known criminal to an asshole, wasted no time monkey piling on top of that phrase. In truth, I’m somewhat impressed with Kellyanne Conway. No…

Roland HughesSeptember 23, 2017

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A Signature Story

Every person has a story and a dream at some point in their life. If we listen, everyone has a lesson, too. We don’t always need our ears to hear. I started this communiqué with five hundred words about “Signature Stories.” They’re a little narrative about us, easy to remember,…

Roland HughesSeptember 20, 2017September 22, 2017

Reviews Society Technology

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – It’s Part of Your Life

Quite honestly, this sequel just might be better than the original. Everybody gets the joke now and they pull in even more obscure and wonderful music memories. It was good to see Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone making appearances in this one and hey, it wouldn’t be GuA without continued…

Roland HughesSeptember 18, 2017September 18, 2017

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Lies, Damned Lies and Exit Polls

This post won’t surface until September, but it is being written in January after whiling away a few hours on a UseNet newsgroup where people obviously don’t take their medication on a regular basis. This time the discussion, such that it was, centered around “exit polls.” I’ve noticed various shows…

Roland HughesSeptember 17, 2017January 6, 2017

Experience Humor Society Technology

Life’s Forgotten Absurdities

“The human super power is forgetting. Who knew?” That line is from a “Doctor Who” episode when Clara Oswald was still his companion. It’s a line which means more each and every year. In truth it might turn out to be one of the more pivotal/influential lines ever uttered by…

Roland HughesSeptember 13, 2017September 11, 2017