Oh, ye of little faith! strongsmell.com slips under the radar for a few days, and how do you respond? With sackcloth and ashes and gnashing of teeth. Geez.

Rest assured: we never went away, and we're as here as ever.

Special congratulations to Jared Bock of Kansas City. Jared was the first lucky cyber-surfer to discover our alternate URL -- and the exclusive membership and e-shopping priviliges that come with it -- after it went live last week.

Visitors to my.strongsmell.com aren't likely get a taste of the good life, but we've never been party-poopers before and we're not about to start now.

Jared's prize, an autographed copy of Danielle Steel's latest novel, Bittersweet, is in the mail.