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 Fiction Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

That Pesky Polar Shift Thing

As a writer you must be willing to be called all manner of impolite and downright in-hospitable things. Unless your journey into the long form will consist of nothing but warm fuzzy love stories, you must be prepared for this. Some realms of fiction, such as science fiction, give their…

Roland HughesJune 22, 2017November 19, 2017

Reviews

Review – The Fallen Angel 3-Movie Collection

★★★☆☆ You have to love movie collections in the discount bin or at your local library. When it comes to Fallen Angel I think I paid $5 in the clearance bin some years ago, but you can hop onto WorldCat.org and see if your local library has a copy.…

Roland HughesJune 19, 2017February 12, 2021

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

I Made This!

I’ve got to say helping out with planting season gives one quite a bit of time riding around in a tractor listening to AM radio? Don’t our tractors have FM? Yes, they do. The fact you thought of or asked that question means you know nothing of rural life. FM,…

Roland HughesJune 19, 2017November 15, 2017

Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Is There Anything More Universally Needed and Hated?

Is there anything more universally needed and hated than an alarm clock? Most of us who have yet to retire have some form of this device ripping us from slumber each morning. If you are like me when I’m on contract far from home, you have at least two. One…

Roland HughesJune 18, 2017February 10, 2021

Experience Society

Maybe There is a Reason?

I’m writing this the week before Christmas. Just the other afternoon my niece and nephew came over to parents place because my brother and his wife needed to do some of those super secret things one does at this time of year. For the past couple of years both kids…

Roland HughesJune 18, 2017November 13, 2017

Experience Music Stories

Such a Promising Life to Waste

I had loaned one of my Airborne Toxic Event CDs to someone so they could expand their musical horizons. Actually I loaned them quite a few CDs but this is the one we speak of today. I became a fan of this band back when DirecTV used to attended South…

Roland HughesJune 17, 2017November 13, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Android Sucks!

I’ve been experimenting with Android on the RCA Viking Pro 10 for a while now. Yes, I should have gotten the Pro 12 for its slightly better keyboard, but, putting aside that massive design flaw, Android itself sucks. This entire “lock everything down to make it useless” approach is only…

Roland HughesJune 12, 2017November 11, 2017