I’m not the type of person who likes to sit around on a beach during a vacation; even a few minutes on the sand drives me crazy with boredom unless I have a decent book to accompany me. So when I have the chance to go away on my own, I like to spend my time poking around historical monuments and drinking in as much information about them as possible by reading guidebooks and related histories, listening to guides, and shooting hundreds of photos – all with the ultimate aim of piecing these fragments together in my blog.   

Up to now I’ve been reasonably satisfied with this process (though a little frustrated at the backlog of raw content I’ve captured and never had time to write up!) but for this trip I decided to go a step further and as an experiment try to capture much more video of the places that I visit and also to publish more “real time” content – hence the Brown Knows India Video Diary entries that I’ve been posting.

Here’s a second video interview on the subject of the OQO Model 02, this time with Rob Bushway from GottaBeMobile.com. Like me, he’s a huge fan of the device.

I’m also a big fan of the GBM podcast, which provides great coverage of the latest news about Tablet PCs and UMPCs. You can sign up for it on iTunes.  

It was just before midnight when BrownBeat’s plane touched down at Mumbai International Airport, and he felt that familiar sense of excitement and anticipation at being back on Indian soil as he made his way through the dilapidated terminal building to passport control.

It only took him five minutes to negotiate Immigration, in contrast to the long waiting lines he’d had to endure when arriving here in the 1990s and early years of the new century, but there was no sign of life at the baggage conveyor when he got there. It’s amazing how much India has improved, he thought wryly to himself, and amazing how far it still has to go.