Nearly four years ago, I wrote a FAQ about having no sense of smell, and put it up on the web.

Since then, people have occasionally happened across that web page and sent me comments on it. In four years I have received 43 such comments (it's easy to count them since they have their own mail folder), which works out to an average rate of about one comment a month or so.

Today I received thirteen comments on that page, which was unprecedented and not a little startling. One of them, helpfully, told me why: my FAQ was listed on the front page of Reddit. It was half way down the second page when I just looked, so with any luck the comment rate will now drop, but for a few hours there I was apparently the Internet's most famous anosmic. How strange.