Tech guru leaves Sun

After a quarter-century spent writing about technology, Mike Himowitz's last "Plug In" column appears today in The Baltimore Sun.
Himowitz, who has worked at the paper for 34 years, is one of dozens of Sun staffers leaving the paper this week as part of voluntary buyouts mandated by the Tribune Company.
Himowitz's friend and colleague David Zeiler writes about the reporter, who was universally known as the "Whizzz."

"He became a tech guru almost by accident, as he tells the story in today’s column. But by the mid-1980s he was writing a weekly column about computers for the Evening Sun. Sitting on opposite sides of the Mac/PC divide, we often engaged in good-natured verbal sparring matches over the years. After witnessing a few of these, Business Editor Bernie Kohn tried to persuade us to do a series of real-life “I’m a Mac, I’m as PC” segments either for this Web site or the Your Money & Business TV show that appears Thursdays on Maryland Public Television. Luckily for viewers, it never happened. Although I never succeeded in convincing Mike of the superiority of the Mac OS, he did at least like the iPod and more recently, the iPhone. Maybe if I’d had a few more years to work on him…."

To read Himowitz's last column click here.