Considering moving everything over to Dreamwidth

Would you be inconvenienced if I moved this journal mostly or entirely to Dreamwidth? Mostly would be cross-posting, but comments only on the DW side; entirely would be nothing posted to LJ except brief link posts, pointing to that week's posts on DW.

LiveJournal is once again inserting redirects and affiliate links on most outbound links. Apparently this round is better coded, and is no longer stripping existing links. But it seems that they are doing this to all accounts: and one of the reasons I've been paying for my account there is to avoid advertising. (I don't love that they have ads, but it's one thing to have that as the tradeoff, and another to have them dropping in links even on paid accounts.)

Part of the annoyance is that they haven't announced this: they could perfectly well have put it in a news post, as "in order to help pay for the servers, we're doing X, here's the code if you want to opt out."

Instead, they waited for people to stumble across it, and when someone asked in the comments on the most recent news post, claimed that it was "transparent." As another user pointed out, if you're being transparent, you announce things, you don't wait for the users to stumble on them.

Mechanics: if I did move everything to DW, you could either comment using OpenID, pay a few dollars to start an account on Dreamwidth (it will revert to free when the paid time expires), or look on the dw_codesharing community on Dreamwidth or the dreamwidth community on LJ for an invite code.

If you want to move over and money is tight, talk to me: I have a couple of invite codes.

I think they're misusing google

I have just told a complete stranger on the Internet to get her partner emergency medical care ASAP. I shouldn't have had to do this: but she shouldn't have dealt with the situation by, apparently, googling, finding an old blog thread on "A simple bump on the head can kill you," and posting to describe a concussion followed immediately by slurred speech and trouble finding words, and a day later by continuous headache and the person saying he couldn't think straight.

This is what the emergency number, NHS Direct, and maybe the Mayo Clinic website are for.

I hope she sees and follows my advice. (The person whose blog it is answered a similar comment on the same post from some months ago with "we don't dispense medical advice here, but I suggest getting him medical care." But I'm not a doctor, so the constraints on me are different and, in this case, I think lesser.)