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    <title>Links</title>
    <author>Manuel Amago</author>
    <precis>A selection of useful sites that I try to check regularly.</precis>
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  <section><title>Software Links</title>
    <precis>These links are all to do with software and software development.</precis>
    <section>
      <title>Every Day</title>
      <precis>Sites that I check every day.</precis>
      <links>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://news.google.com/">Google News</link>
          <desc>Good source for a round up of news from a number of different sources.  I, of course, pay particular attention to SciTech section.</desc>
        </entry>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot</link>
          <desc>A nice stop for all technology related matters.  I like to check the <link url="http://slashdot.org/developers/">developers</link>, <link url="http://slashdot.org/apache/">apache</link>, <link url="http://slashdot.org/books/">books</link>, <link url="http://slashdot.org/interviews/">interviews</link> and <link url="http://slashdot.org/science/">science</link> sections.</desc>
        </entry>
      </links>
    </section>
    <section><title>Once a Week</title>
      <precis>Sites that I check every week.</precis>
      <links>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://java.sun.com/">java.sun.com: The Source for Java Technology</link>
          <desc>Couldn't forget this one.  From the creators of Java itself!  Nice to touch base from time to time.</desc>
        </entry>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://www.javaworld.com/">Java World</link>
          <desc>Used to by my favorite site for up-to-date articles on all things Java.  In my view, it's a little worse for wear after <i>the crash</i>, but it still has some nice articles once in a while.</desc>
        </entry>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://ibm.com/developerworks/">developerWorks (IBM)</link>
          <desc>A great resource for articles, tutorials, tools...  They have a number of different <i>zones</i> (XML, Java, WebServices, ...) and keep adding to/reorging these every so often.</desc>
        </entry>
      </links>
    </section>
    <section><title>Good Software Development Resources</title>
      <precis>These sites have a good collection of articles on Software Development.  I keep checking these for updates.</precis>
      <links>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://www.martinfowler.com/">Martin Fowler</link>
          <desc>Martin's website has collection of very interesting articles on a number of software development related issues.</desc>
        </entry>
      </links>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title>Computing Associations</title>
      <links>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://www.acm.org/">Association for Computing Machinery</link>
          <desc>One of the forerunners of the Computer Revolution.  With such high standing papers under their belt, like Dijkstra's seminal <i>Go To Statement Considered Harmful</i>.</desc>
        </entry>
        <entry>
          <link url="http://www.computer.org/">IEEE Computer Society</link>
          <desc>Another one of the big computer associations.  It is my belief that this one is bigger in Europe.</desc>
        </entry>
      </links>
    </section>
  </section>
  <section><title>Personal Links</title>
    <precis>Nothing to do with software, these are links that I use in my day to day.  May move them to my <link url="family/">family</link> site one day.</precis>
    <links>
      <entry><link url="http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/">Word of The Day</link>
        <desc><script code="yes"><![CDATA[<TABLE cellspacing="5"><TR><TD valign="top">]]></script>Try to add a word to your vocabulary every day.  Is there a better place to start?<script code="yes"><![CDATA[</TD><TD><TABLE bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><TR><TD align="center" bgcolor="#F0F0F0">]]></script><script src="http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/wotd.js" type="text/javascript"/><script code="yes"><![CDATA[</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>]]></script></desc>
      </entry>
      <entry><link url="http://www.dictionary.com/">dictionary.com</link>
        <desc>I never get to write much, but writing and words have always been a passion of mine.  You might say my friends call me <i>pedantic</i>, for example.  In a nice way, of course! ;p</desc>
      </entry>
      <entry><link url="http://www.thesaurus.com/">thesaurus.com</link>
        <desc>In the same vein as the link above, this sister site is also great when your having a bit of <i>writers block</i>.</desc>
      </entry>
    </links>
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