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 Technology

The More They Try to Kill Coal the More It Survives

We have all heard the sock with sandals crowd spouting the evils of coal for decades. Yes, global warming is real, but if you want to be taken seriously stop wearing socks with sandals. No matter what some hipster told you that combination of footwear was never meant to exist.…

Roland HughesJune 11, 2017November 11, 2017

Experience Fiction Technology

The Coming Age of Vampires

Feed Shark Writers throughout history seem to be drawn to the topics of vampires and living forever. While living forever might be appealing if you could live forever at the age of 25, old enough to do anything and young enough to recover from it, but the story of Eos…

Roland HughesJune 10, 2017November 11, 2017

Experience Society Technology

Has The Internet Become Useless?

This rant is a continuation of our discussion concerning distracted writing. I mean it. Has the Internet become useless? Seriously, we have to filter out hundreds if not thousands of spam emails each and every day. Many of us will never know about the countless volume of spam the various…

Roland HughesJune 4, 2017November 11, 2017

Experience Music Technology

Your Sound System Chooses Your Music

I’ve had quite a few discussions about music with my fellow authors from this site. It’s lead to a few posts like that one mentioning Maxell UD XL/II cassette tapes. In fact, this is another post mentioning Maxell UD XL/II, but has little to do with them. As a side…

Roland HughesJune 3, 2017February 10, 2021

Experience Technology

Happy Birthday Radio!

Most of you think very little of that thing in your dash which can be tuned to one of many broadcast stations. You simply turn it on and then get inundated with commercials. Occasionally the DJ shuts up and commercials stop long enough to play one whole song. That thing…

Roland HughesJune 2, 2017November 11, 2017

Experience Publishing Society Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Reality 101

A writer’s service I subscribe to has a member’s only bulletin board where a very diligent and dutiful person weeds through mountains of worthless “job” posts to provide snippets to the “least worst” of the writing opportunities for members. Some of the opportunities are really great and others, well, they…

Roland HughesJune 1, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Kathy Griffin – You’re Life on the F-List

As long as the F is for Fired. I must admit, I watched you quite a bit in your early years. Only an episode or two of your “D-List” show but you seemed to pop up in many other things. Many years ago I even attended one of your shows…

Roland HughesJune 1, 2017November 9, 2017