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.

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Dinner For One

I stumbled onto an article about how this delightful little short is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most repeated TV program of all time. It’s a New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany so they say. It’s too bad people can’t do comedy like this today. Click…

Roland HughesNovember 22, 2020January 30, 2021

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It’s Time to Regulate News

Putting Journalism Back in “the news” There’s been a lot of talk about “Fake News” since the Imbecile-in-Chief ran for office. Organizations have been allowed to play far too fast and loose with what they call “news.” There is even a petition on Change.org to demand Fox News remove “News”…

Roland HughesNovember 20, 2020November 20, 2020

Experience Society

How Do We Fix America?

You had to understand how it was an imbecile like Trump became President of the United States before you can ask “How do we fix America?” Please read the “How Did It Happen” series before reading this. Why the blue wave didn’t happen In the “How Did It Happen” series…

Roland HughesNovember 18, 2020November 18, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 8 – Summary

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. The Fly-over States Got Ignored If you are looking for a soundbite answer, that would be it. If you read through the previous seven posts you know there is no soundbite answer for this. Distrust…

Roland HughesNovember 17, 2020November 18, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 7

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. QAnon QAnon theory proper began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by “Q”, who was presumably a single American individual; it is now more likely that “Q” has become a group…

Roland HughesNovember 16, 2020November 16, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 6

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. Sell it in one – continued In the last installment we talked about the psychology of marketing, at least part of it. We talked about Anchoring and Effective Frequency. We discussed what is required to…

Roland HughesNovember 15, 2020November 15, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 5

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. FCC Rules Broadcasting false content during news programming The FCC is prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press. It is, however, illegal for broadcasters to intentionally…

Roland HughesNovember 15, 2020November 15, 2020