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 Publishing Technology

The Myth That Book Piracy is Good for Authors

Personally I believe this myth is funded and created by Google to keep their CEO and board of directors out of prison for engaging in the largest case of copyright infringement in the history of man. Yes, I get pissed about that. Copyright holders weren’t paid for the use of…

Roland HughesJuly 22, 2017November 29, 2017

Finance Technology

RadioShack Refuses to Die!

Most of you reading this blog are probably too young to remember when RadioShack was cool. I know Ollie remembers because he even gave one of his characters a job at RadioShack, but most of you probably cannot remember the days of the Trash-80 (TRS-80) or Realistic car stereos. Before…

Roland HughesJuly 20, 2017November 28, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

A Genuine Synthetic Life – Part 1

The title is much more entertaining if you read it aloud using your best Mr. Haney voice and pronounce it jen-you-wine. We have slowly but steadily been moving to a synthetic existence. Somehow we find this better than a real existence, or at least Millenials do. Our synthetic existence started…

Roland HughesJuly 19, 2017November 28, 2017

Film Reviews Reviews

Review – X-Men: Apocalypse

★★☆☆☆ Had I found an easy way to generate 2.5 stars I might have given X-Men: Apocalypse that rating. This wasn’t quite as bad a movie as 2 stars makes it sound. It also isn’t something you should leap to put on your rental list. My biggest problem with this…

Roland HughesJuly 17, 2017February 12, 2021

Conspiracy Society Technology

Did the New York Times Hack Trump Junior’s Email?

There has been much ado about the Russian email to Donny Junior. The New York Times appears to have been attempting to extort an interview from him threatening to publish the emails. What I haven’t heard anything about is just how the NYT _obtained_ those emails. Okay, I’m a writer…

Roland HughesJuly 17, 2017November 27, 2017

Fiction Folk tales Stories

Who Owns This Dead Horse?

If you have never seen a ‘Dead Horse’ list then you must neither have a job nor pay even the slightest bit of attention to how people get elected or what they do once in office. In short, your brain cannot hold anything longer than a tweet. Feature image by…

Roland HughesJuly 16, 2017February 8, 2021

Experience Humor Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Why Can’t People Have the Decency To Die When It’s Nice Out?

There are some wholly inappropriate statements one just can’t un-hear in life. Sadly they are so inappropriate as to be utterly hilarious. I heard this politically and socially incorrect statement at least 20 years ago. This morning I was writing an email to a cranky old man I know and…

Roland HughesJuly 13, 2017November 27, 2017