From time to time bits of information are posted here which I hope will be useful. Items will be removed on an irregular basis.
Some Twitter copyleftnz postings will point to this page.

After making a considerable effort to make the Copyleft site World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) standards complient I found that very few NZ sites followed these standards. I suspect that web authoring tools are to blame. Creative web designers are relying on these tools to create markup for them while the authors concentrate on the human functional and artistic aspects.

The Copyleft site was originally written using Dreamweaver 4 and considerable effort had to be expended to make the site xhtml and css standards compliant.

The only .nz sites I could find that were HTML / XHTML compliant were www.rnz.co.nz and newzealand.govt.nz, but both of these failed the w3c css test.

The Chocolate Fish Award

A Chocolate Fish will be awarded for every .nz site submitted which passes both the w3c's Markup Validation test and the the w3c's CSS Validation test. The Copyleft site is excluded.

There is some medium to heavy duty accounting software out there. The more sophisticated the software, the more likely it is to be commercial.

Wikipedia has some good references most of which are free software.

Quasar from Linux Canada is a commercial package, but the simplest version can be downloaded at no cost.
Packages for (K)Ubuntu, Mandriva, SuSE and Fedora are available.

“ Saw your info on accounting software. I have been using Quasar for quite a few years on Suse. Works well for my small business. There is a good support forum and it handles NZ GST ok.” - from S.E.

Attaché, a NZ specific suite by Attaché Software have installed their commercial software on Linux systems using an emulator.

If anyone knows of other Linux Accounting software packages for businesses, I would be happy to add them to this list.