Apologies for the total lack of posts on the blog as of late but it’s been a busy busy month at 76design. You need to understand that March is a very hectic time for us. Besides having no time to blog, I’ve barely been able to get in my requisite fill of Unreal, ice cream cakes, the occasional beer and office jam sessions. You don’t know how hard it is on all of us to have to spend the whole day working and not being able to do any fun stuff.

Well, that’s all about to change… for Brett and I at least. We’ve descended upon Austin, Texas once again to partake in the magic that is SXSW Interactive. The interactive conference (which spun off of the well known SXSW music festival) is a world class event that brings together web and technology folks from around the globe to discuss everything from: blogging to SEO to usability to mash-ups… and everything in between. Austin’s a really vibrant city and a great setting for the conference, providing excellent venues for the conference’s well-known nighttime parties (er… networking events).
We’re in a bit of a holding pattern at the hotel right now waiting for the Lego play zone and registration to open, but you can feel excitement in the air… or perhaps it’s just the humidity. Regardless, at first glance it looks like we’ll have just as hard a time as last year trying to decide which of this year’s panels to attend.

This post is just a warning… the calm before the storm, so to speak. In a few hours Brett and I will be propelled into the eye of the hurricane (do hurricanes have eyes?) and heading our separate ways to double-up on the SXSW blanket coverage you readers have come to expect from this fine blog.

This just in… word on the street is ex-76er and current student John Wiseman (shiny new design) arrived in Austin yesterday.