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Miami Herald tech columnist signs off

Tim Henderson, who writes the Tech Q&A column for The Miami Herald, is leaving the paper.

In his Tuesday column, Henderson wrote, “I’ve accepted a job in suburban New York where my wife’s family lives, and while I’d like to keep writing the column, there are no plans to continue. Meanwhile, stay in touch at my personal Web page, tim.hendo.googlepages.com/home.com, and I’ll keep you abreast.

“Together, we transferred cassettes into iPods, tamed digital-photo overload and found the right laptop. We overcame countless error messages, rescued lost favorites, reconnected to recalcitrant e-mail, raged against hapless help lines and machines that spewed nonsense.

“I learned as much from you as you did from me — a good part of the time, you solved the problem before I did. There were also those kind experts who let me know when I screwed up, usually in polite terms. It was fun.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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