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 Finance Reviews Society Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

It Wasn’t a Bad Movie – Just Judged Incorrectly

I don’t often get to listen to Kai Ryssdal “Do the Numbers” on “Marketplace.” The show airs at an inconvenient time for me. No, I don’t own an identity theft enabling device (you call them “smart” phones but they are really idiot phones) so subscribing to the podcast doesn’t make…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2017December 2, 2017

Experience Stories

The Lyrics Have Us

Too often for humans music is something in the background. We “bud out” at work or just have it on while driving to drown out other noises. We don’t often, or at least often enough, listen to the lyrics. In order for us to actually listen to a song in…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2017February 8, 2021

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Digital Divide

I recently got around to reading an article in Time magazine which was ticking off major infrastructure projects the current administration needed to fund as part of its “Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Package.” Yes, they talked about bridges and sewers and lead water mains, but they also talked about Internet infrastructure.…

Roland HughesJuly 31, 2017December 2, 2017

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Why Don’t We Have a Nuclear Engine?

Make no mistake, I’m not a fan of nuclear power. Honestly I’m not a fan of the criminal fraud which was used to sell it to us and the even greater outright crime of seizing perfectly good farmland under the “imminent domain” rules letting for profit corporations pay pennies for…

Roland HughesJuly 28, 2017December 2, 2017

Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Chickens

I have been dog, chicken, rabbit and turtle sitting while my brother and his family are on vacation. They aren’t that far away so keeping the place randomly occupied during the day and spending the night there in case evil doers happen by is not a big thing. Cat litter…

Roland HughesJuly 27, 2017December 2, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

A Genuine Synthetic Life – Part 2

In part one you Millenials learned you are wearing synthetic clothes and eating synthetic food. In case you still doubt the synthetic food part, check out this article from PETA about finding soy-free and gluten-free fake meat. Yes, the Soy and Gluten Nazis have even invaded the world of fake…

Roland HughesJuly 24, 2017November 29, 2017

Reviews

Review: Merchants of Doubt

★★★★☆ Merchants of Doubt is one of those documentaries I added to my rental list not expecting a whole lot. I put off watching it for a couple of weeks after it arrived because I didn’t have high expectations. Was I ever wrong! Personally I believe every breathing creature able…

Roland HughesJuly 23, 2017February 10, 2021