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 Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 4

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. Bush 43 When Bush 41 was President of the United States I and most of the Republicans I know didn’t think we could ever have a worse candidate presented by our beloved party. We were…

Roland HughesNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 3

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. Reaganomics You will find a lot of trickle-down and voodoo definitions of this floating around on the Internet. Basically it was let “the haves” become “have mores” and out of the goodness in their hearts…

Roland HughesNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Experience Society

How Did it Happen? – Pt. 2

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. The more things seem unrelated the more tightly coupled they are. Moore’s Law It’s not an actual law of physics, just a prediction that has stood the test of time and is treated like a…

Roland HughesNovember 12, 2020November 13, 2020

Experience Society

How Did It Happen? – Pt. 1

How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. The more things seem unrelated the more tightly coupled they are. Preface I posted a simple pictorial on this some time ago. It appears Faux News has taken down the banner I linked to for…

Roland HughesNovember 12, 2020November 13, 2020

Society

Dr. Fauci

I don’t care what your political position is. During a pandemic we need a medical professional we can trust. I want to share this link to a petition to make Dr. Fauci Time Magazine Person of the Year 2020.

Roland HughesNovember 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

So You Are Thinking About Becoming a Technical Recruiter?

I’ve written essays about this over the years. As a contractor I get to hear from the great unqualified masses on a regular basis. I have a really great essay about the changing game of consulting and technical recruiting in my new book. Just yesterday I wrote another really good…

Roland HughesNovember 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Experience Society

Congrates to the first female Veep!

A great big heart-felt congratulations on your becoming the first female Veep! For the love of God can you please have Julia Louis-Dreyfus on stage with you during the Inauguration? Her show helped soften up the general population for this. For those who don’t understand that, check out Veep.

Roland HughesNovember 7, 2020November 7, 2020