Now LBRB is successfully moved (with a few little bits of tidying needed her and there) I need to tell you what I did with the nearly $1000 so generously donated.
First and foremost of course I bought some new hosting. I think you’ll agree that the site feels much faster and slicker as a result of the move. Gone is the churning away and (hopefully) gone is the CPU throttling.
However, I did have some money left over so I decided that as you all had been so generous that the right thing to do was pay it forward. In that spirit I split the remaining money into three parts and donated thusly:
The Autism Science Foundation – A good deal of LBRB contributors and visitors are American so to donate to a science based autism foundation in the States seemed like a good idea. ASF do not place _any_ research monies into the blind alley of vaccines.
National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading autism charity, giving an actual voice to actual autistic people is vital and the NAS do this better than anyone else in my opinion.
Speur Ghlan are a small, recently incorporated charity based in the land of my fathers – Scotland. I know the founder well and am constantly impressed at her drive and enthusiasm for her subject matter.
The amounts involved were not huge obviously but I hope that I’ve managed to meet with your approval both in choice and reasons for choice.
Thank you once again for your generous donations to get LBRB a better home. I hope I can repay you with years more quality blogging from Sullivan and the odd bit of snark from me 😉
Left Brain Right Brain 
I should also point out for those reading that Speur Ghlan is a charity which is providing and campaigning for much needed Early intervention for pre-schoolers on the spectrum. 🙂
It’s a miracle. Loads almost instantly on my clapped out system. Thanks.
Very happy with that.
Wow! Almost instantaneous. A great improvement. I hope the move wasn’t too painful!
Hooray! Long live LBRB.
Well done in every respect! Plus, thanks for the tip about ASF (since I’m based in the US and am not too happy with most advocacy groups here).
LBRB gu brath!
Thank you for your kind donation, Kev!
Jonathon – no thanks due to me, it was down to the extreme generosity of LBRB readers 🙂
Gotta say that the site is wicked fast now for me.
The site looks great and is lightning fast. Many congratulations. Looking forward to many many wonderful, insightful posts.
And we appreciate the support. -Alison
Dear Kev
Kev money well spent much needed.
Sincerely
Sniffer
Great work!
And sniffer – I’m watching you, in double-quick time.
Dear McD,
Your off topic.
Sincerely
Sniffer
The site is loading much faster; most excellent.
And looks like a good way to share around the left-over funds. Well done 🙂
thanks soooo much Kev and LBRB readers- this means a lot to us as we are just starting out on our journey as a charity and though it us exciting it is also quite scary at times. Your donation is very important to us, and we hope that out of our tiny acorn we are planting in Stirling, scotland some mighty oaks will grow and we will be able to support a significant number of special little people and their families…
Ruth
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Things you brought up made . But, think about this, lets suppose you added a little bit more? I mean, I dont want to teach how you can run your site, however what if you actually added more stuff that can easily grab peoples awareness? Simply as a online video or maybe a graphic or even few for getting your readers excited concerning what you are talking about.