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.

Finance Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Debacle Which is Yahoo Finance

In the annals of Web design mistakes the recent redesign of Yahoo Finance deserves its own History Channel episode in their “Engineering Disasters” series. Granted Yahoo’s troubles are no secret in the financial world. To some it appeared management was trying to whittle the value of the company so low…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2016September 11, 2017

Experience Fiction Technology

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 5 – Failure is Success Waiting to Happen

There have been quite a few news stories over the past year. Mainly interviews with billionaires who have taken the Warren Buffet pledge. They focus on the differences between MBAs and Entrepreneurs. An MBA is a short sighted creature, dim of wit and, with the help of good glasses, can…

Roland HughesJuly 31, 2016September 10, 2017

Finance Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 5a

Your greatest tool as a writer is the ability to seek out the odd and absurd. Great stories don’t come from an ordinary life, but the extraordinary things that happen yet seem like nothing at the time. This weekend a combination of that “toe tucking” commercial and someone’s comment had…

Roland HughesJuly 25, 2016September 10, 2017

Fiction Society Technology

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 4 – The Water Powered Car

Ah, you saw that title and instantly thought of people wearing Armadillo hats and putting tin foil in the roof of their vehicles/homes “to keep the spy signals out” didn’t you? Admit it. Culturally we’ve been conditioned to associate that topic with such people. Heck, it was even on an…

Roland HughesJuly 24, 2016September 9, 2017

Stories Technology

Flaws Can Pull Audience In

This is really a follow up post to the Leviathan post. After most of you read that post you probably wondered why I watched the entire thing. Basically, it had some issues. Yes the town and buildings looked like the run down things we all expect to see in Russian…

Roland HughesJuly 21, 2016September 9, 2017

Reviews

Leviathan

This was a weird movie. I don’t mean SyFy twists and turns or blood and gore, just weird. Normally when I see subtitles pop up for a DVD I eject the disk and return it. My major criticism with CafeDVD is their inability to identify what language a movie is…

Roland HughesJuly 21, 2016September 9, 2017

Fiction

Challenge Your Beliefs – Pt. 3

The concepts of good, wicked and evil aren’t just something writers need to explore, they need to be explored in all walks of life. These definitions which many wish to believe are hard and fast are actually quite fluid. You have all heard about the movie “Schindler’s List” even if…

Roland HughesJuly 17, 2016September 9, 2017