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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The Wifi Antenna Saga Part 2

The first installment has a different name and can be found here. My Hawking antenna showed up and I took some time to install it. Of course it only offered a wall mount using flimsy plastic stuff. No way that was going to hold up on a pole away from…

Roland HughesSeptember 11, 2017September 8, 2017

Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

How to Sell a Lie

You’ve all heard of different methods of “selling a lie.” Probably one of the more famous is a quote from a show I don’t remember. “I find the most effect method of selling a lie is to hide it between two truths.” The reason I don’t remember where it came…

Roland HughesSeptember 10, 2017February 16, 2017

Experience Technology

Your Next Set of Tires Will Be Made Out of Soybeans

This has been a long time coming. Tires made in large part from soybeans. Oh, don’t write this one off as some socks-in-sandals wearing tree hugger cause. I’m not pushing it here because I grew up on a farm and believe it will help the soybean market. Whether you want…

Roland HughesSeptember 9, 2017September 7, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

A Retirement Home for Spooks, Spies and Assets

Go ahead, let your mind chew on that title for a minute. It’s the dirty little secret nobody told you about when they came to recruit you, playing on your patriotism and desire to server your country, whatever country that is. Yes, this is a follow up to my burning…

Roland HughesSeptember 7, 2017August 24, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Burning a Spy – Part 2

continued . . . Remember what I said about backstopping in part 1? That’s important now. When a clandestine agency physically terminates an asset it is “tied off.” Oh, there may be some local investigation, but it will end up as just another unsolved murder because the legend is solid.…

Roland HughesSeptember 6, 2017August 24, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Tell Your Broken English Telemarketers Not to Call on Labor Day

(510) 240-8667 Remember that phone number and add it to whatever call blocker you have. This telemarketing scam called me multiple times on Labor Day. The first time I was either busy or out of signal range because I had a missed call without a message. The final time was…

Roland HughesSeptember 5, 2017September 5, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Burning a Spy – Part 1

Many random firings of synapse lead to a post such as this one. Every writer must be keenly aware of that proverbial butterfly in the rain forest flapping its wings. It’s really stunning to see just how many writers get it so incredibly wrong and just how many hundreds of…

Roland HughesSeptember 4, 2017August 24, 2017