For those of you who possibly thought I had recently passed away, you might just be pleased to know that I am alive and well.

What has been the reason for my departure away from BlogaPro? Let’s just say that work has kept me occupied - that’s putting it lightly.

For those of you who are not taken the time to read my short biography, I am a software engineer for a small company (Livewire Digital Ltd) that has been developing the Media Desk HD system for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, a system which is fitted on all eight participating yachts.  Further information about the system is available on the company’s website.

On the occasion when I haven’t been writing software, I have been traveling to the other side of the world. Most recently, I was in Cape Town on a 17-day trip to perform much-needed maintenance on all eight of the yachts after the first leg of the ocean race.

I can assure you that I will now be returning to my regular schedule of blog updates so stay tuned!

If you’re interested, I’ve left you all with two of my favorite videos from the race thus far which demonstrate our ‘crash button’ feature. This feature consists of a stern camera which maintains a 2-minute rolling buffer of video at any moment in time.  By pushing one of the buttons located above deck, the video is dumped to disk for later editing. Some great footage has been captured:

• Team Russia’s Chinese Gybe
• Delta Lloyd hit whale