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.

Film Reviews Reviews

Review – Road to Perdition

★★★★☆ Road to Perdition is a really well done movie. How can you really not like a movie with Tom Hanks? Especially when he is playing a dad type role. He really does that well. The entire cast do an incredible job of pulling the viewer into this 1931 gangster…

Roland HughesMay 12, 2017February 9, 2021

Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Strange Dreams

Perhaps it is the same for all writers, or, all serious writers, but I tend to have dreams I remember. I don’t care what people say about vivid dreams and sleep apnea because vivid dreams are a writer’s stock and trade. This is how that voice which has been trying…

Roland HughesMay 8, 2017November 3, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Fiction Road Trips

Welcoming Life’s Milestones

Oh groan. Another birthday, a milestone. Another layer of wrinkles as if life were some sort of onion. Hopefully, no one will remember this year and I’ll slip under the radar. In a world of instant communication and universal slathering of anything by anyone, allowing a milestone to grow smaller…

Roland HughesMay 2, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Lies Damned Lies and Site Statistics

So, you started your own blog. You wrote some content then realized you needed new content every day, at least until you got well north of 400 posts, so people keep coming back. Neither right nor wrong it simply is. People come back for content. You need a deep pile…

Roland HughesMay 1, 2017November 2, 2017

Experience Stories Technology

Learn the Language

Recently I received an email from what I assume is a Magic Jack phone wielding “consulting company.” Ordinarily I dismiss such poorly worded emails which don’t include a billing rate. The rates are always illegal alien wages and the “company” almost always wants you to invoice monthly giving them 45-90…

Roland HughesApril 30, 2017November 2, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

90 Days in Jail

I was tempted to call this post Are All Apple Customers Assholes or Just the Ones Which Go To Restaurants? This happened again at lunch today. As a traveling consultant I eat out quite a bit. It is a hazard of the occupation. As such I’m constantly exposed to the…

Roland HughesApril 28, 2017October 31, 2017

Experience Technology

For the Love of a Keyboard

I recently showed up with a band new gleaming white PS/2 tactile keyboard from some knock off maker. Like all of these mechanical keyboards it was a bit stiff to start with but now types rather awesome. I got a lot of “old school” ribbing and comments about my age,…

Roland HughesApril 16, 2017October 31, 2017