Rough Guides You can now browse the text of some of the complete Rough Guides on the net, through their link up with HotWired. The guides available are USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, India and most of Europe. I have heard that following the redundancies at Wired a couple of weeks ago, this relationship is to go, but it's still there at the moment. Also available is a travel forum, although this is pretty sparse. I'd put it in the category of quite useful, if you can't put your hand on the 'real thing'.
Fingers are amazingly dexterous for thumbing through pages.
And also all of us cradle the phone with a shoulder while scribbling in Time Out - you need two phone lines to do this if you're using the net. What this sort of site will be good for is giving you a central point for last minute ticket offers or restaurant telephone numbers, etc. If you're going further afield the Lonely Planet is an excellent site, that together with the Rough Guides site provides a fairly good depth of information about the real travellers' destinations. New accountancy links This will be a regular feature each week. If you haven't used the search engine it indexes 40-50 editorially selected sites of known quality.