death_date years_active children birth_place name birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation
8 april 2010 1970s -- 2010 2 pietermaritzburg , south africa guy kewney 30 april 1946 mary kewney -lrb- 1972-2010 ; his death -rrb- guy kewney
 guy johan kewney author , journalist
guy kewney

guy johan kewney -lrb- 30 april 1946 -- 8 april 2010 -rrb- was a south african-born british journalist , regarded by some as the first uk technology journalist .
he was best known as a personal computing pundit , starting with `` personal computer world '' -lrb- pcw -rrb- , writing a monthly column for the magazine from its launch in 1978 until its closure in june 2009 .
he launched the blog `` newswireless.net '' in 2002 and was a founding partner of afaics research .
one of his daughters , lucy sherriff , was on the staff of the register until 2007 .
at the peak of the fame and influence of pcw , kewney was widely regarded as one of the uk 's most influential writers and broadcasters on microcomputing technology , founding and editing trade publications `` microscope '' and `` pc dealer '' , co-presenting `` computer trade video '' and working as a tv presenter for five years on thames tv 's `` database '' and channel 4 's `` 4 computer buffs '' before helping launch ziff-davis in britain as the star columnist of `` pc magazine '' -lrb- uk -rrb- , `` pc direct '' , `` computer life '' , `` it week '' , and zdnet uk .
