The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind.

(ducks and runs, taking a guitar with him).

As someone who is on AAroads, and has had a road site since at least 1996 [www.cahighways.org] (when I was posting road information to misc.transport.roads and ca.highways on USENET), I'm going to disagree. I see relatively few civil engineers on AAroads, in both senses of the word. There are folks there who don't understand the road acquisition process, EIRs, costs and budgets, and so forth -- all of which are part of engineering. They are also, at times, decidedly un-civil.

As for me, I'm not a civil engineer. I'm a cybersecurity specialist, who has been doing things in computer security since the earliest days of the Orange Book. But I've had a love for maps even longer, going back to being a kid collecting maps from the neighborhood gas station. What AARoads has is roadgeeks -- people that love roads. Some love taking pictures, some the history, some the maps. Some get a bit overly rigid in adherence to numbering standards and such, but that's true of any group. But there isn't a proponderence of civil engineers, or the other stuff that was said.

I'll note that even though I have a road site, I've never participated in the Wikipedia road effort, nor do I participate in the AARoads Wiki. I don't like the structure of the Wiki, nor does it allow keeping updates on current status of the road. So I still maintain my own site, as many others do. We remember the days when the web consisted of lots of independent information resources.

XMarks on Firefox started acting up as soon as Firefox did the "Legacy" S**t. The behavior has forced me over to Chrome. Xmarks is still useful if you want to have some disjoint and some synced bookmarks: I use to have different bookmark toolbars at work and at home, but a shared subset of bookmarks that allow me to bookmark something at work, and see the bookmark and write about it on my blog from home. It also lets me sync the bookmarks between different browsers (well, it did), so that there was a standard set of bookmarks no matter which browser I used.

I'm one of those who still hasn't upgraded (I wrote about it today on LJ), as all my machines at home are AMD machines, and SP3 had problems on AMD machines. See this Slashdot discussion in particular.

Does anyone know if those problems have been resolved? I'll be glad to upgrade if I know I'm not going to be dealing with BSODs.