Tech 'Expert' Has Confession in Last Column

Posted on: Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 09:00 CDT By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ After writing close to 1,000 of these weekly essays, I won't bury the lead on this one: It's my last column for The Baltimore Sun. There. It was hard to say that out loud. Now I can talk about how much fun it's been, and how much I'll miss all of you. But first, I'll let you in on a secret: I've been faking it all these years. I am not a computer expert, or a nerd, or a techie by training or aptitude. I was a liberal arts major who barely passed high school math, snoozed through science and never saw a computer, much less touched one, until I was well into my 30s. But I had a problem. It began with a new assignment on The Evening Sun -- one that involved long hours and a longer commute. With a 3-year-old and an infant at home, I was desperate to find some way to... [read full story]