About
Monsoon Writing is a personal weblog devoted to travel - primarily mine. I'm Gareth Williams, a 25 year old New Zealander who enjoys traveling and writing. I spent the better part of my time between 2005 and 2006 living in Bombay, India. While overseas I started keeping a travel weblog, the hastily cobbled together and imaginatively entitled "Gareth's Travel Weblog", so that friends and family back home could keep up on my adventures.
Having since returned to New Zealand, and subsequently moved to Australia, I am now looking to travel further afield once again. It would appear that I'll still be needing my weblog for quite some time, so I decided to build something a little more permanent. This is simply an upgraded version of the old site with a slightly more imaginative name - all of the old content has been migrated, and remains available here.
I came up with the name 'Monsoon Writing' while flicking back through my old travel weblog - it was the name I used for one of my posts there. As well as the obvious link to India, to me the name immediately conjures up images of a unending torrent of words. It's no coincidence that many of my posts tend to end up resembling the same. Of course it's also an allusion to the title of a brilliant movie.
Contact
By far the easiest way to get hold of me is by email, gacrux@gmail.com. Please do. I love getting email, hearing from people I haven't spoken to in a while, and getting feedback about the site. Whether you get a timely response is another matter of course. I try my best to answer all my mail, but please keep in mind I don't have a lot of spare time these days. So don't be offended if I don't write back the same day - I will eventually.
Attribution
The image used as the heading to this page is derived from this image, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. Anybody who wishes to make use of my derived image (although why you would want to, I have no idea!) is entitled to do so under the terms of the same license, which can be found here. The images and CSS code for the pretty comment submission form are taken from Badboy Niceforms, curtesy of badboy.media.design.
Browser Compatibility
This site is known to work best when viewed with Mozilla Firefox. If you don't already have a copy you can download it here - it's standards compliant, secure, and free. Most other browsers have not been tested, however all pages on this site are HTML-4.01 standards compliant, so if your browser is also standards compliant then you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Users of Microsoft's 'Internet Explorer' browser can expect to experience some minor display bugs, especially around the comment submission form, however the site should still be more or less functional. Users of KDE's 'Konqueror' browser may experience a white-on-white colour scheme around the comment submission form for some bizzare reason.
The site is designed with a target resolution of 1024x768 in mind, however it should still be useable with only 800x600. Yes, I know it's a crime to design a website without scalability in mind these days; sorry, but I'm not a professional web designer, and don't have the time or inclination to make it such. Those of you who're still using your lovely 640x480 / 256 colour setup from 1995 - you're out of luck I'm afraid :)
