Blogging, and the answering of emails, may be a bit sporadic* for the next fortnight as I'm in the lovely part of the rota where I work 108 hours in these two weeks. Honestly if I wanted to work that many hours I would have trained to be a doctor.

It's lots of twelve hour shifts which, once I'm done sleeping eight hours a day, leaves me with two hours to eat and have free time/admin time.

Now, I have a favour to ask of you all.

Since I first heard of it I've wanted to go to South By Southwest Interactive - last year I even took annual leave in order to go but was let done by my NHS salary. This year I have a chance to go as one of the panellists.

The committee in charge of deciding who gets to go as a panellist initially hold a public vote, and this is what I need your help with.

If you could be so kind as to go here http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1291 to register and vote for this panel I would be very grateful.

As far as I can see this isn't against 'the rules' as it talks about the wider community of which us internet users are all part of. Your vote carries carries weight with the panel picker judges, so it's not just a case of whoever gets the most votes gets picked.

I think that it will be a good panel, covering topics like blogging anonymously and whistle-blowing.

*OK, MORE sporadic than usual.