For several months I've been toying with the idea of writing a FAQ about myself. This is because people often ask me the same questions when they find out I have no sense of smell, and in any such situation my finely-honed netizen instincts cry out to me to write a FAQ.

Today I gave in to them, and did so: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/smell.html.

It was a bit pointless, really, because most people who find this out about me do so when talking to me in person, which makes it unlikely that they would naturally go and read the FAQ before asking me questions about it! So I don't actually expect this to cut down on the number of times I get asked the same thing. But it made a nice break from work, and the chances are that someone out there will find it vaguely interesting, and it's stopped my Internet conscience from pestering me about it, so there we go…