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I've written a lot of stuff over the years. Some of it might even be considered interesting. Since Harper & Row isn't exactly knocking on my door to publish an anthology of my greatest works, I'm putting them here. On this page you'll find a travelogue, an article on information warfare, and an article on a maintenance procedure on a Taurus SHO.

- Skip

In 1999, I retired from the Navy. My wife, Janis, and I went travelling around Europe for several months. Here are the accounts of our adventures and misadventures on the European continent.

This is a primer on the concept of information warfare. It was originally published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings in February, 1996.

From 1991-96, I was the proud owner of a Taurus SHO. This was Ford's sleeper hot-rod, a Taurus with a powerful and high-winding Yamaha-built V6, manual transmission, and suspension tweaks. It was a really sweet car. At 60,000 miles there is a major maintenance procedure that has to be done. I couldn't find a Ford dealer that I trusted with it, so I wound up doing it myself. Here's a report that was originally published by the SHO Registry (a club for SHO owners) in 1995.