A Greatest Hits Test

Right. I'm so completely dissatisfied with livejournal that I'm going to see how much I can post here. It will likely be a kludge, but what else can I do? Moving from one journal service to another is rather like changing operating systems. Nothing works the same way, nothing is simple at first, and half your data will be corrupted in some fashion. But if I don't start trying something new then I'll never be able to delete everything I have up at LJ.