Here’s a story that’s so good, I just have to repeat it. The Times reports that AOL is going dig up the garden of a notorious spammer and former neo-Nazi. A court has ordered him to pay up $12.8 million, but he’s so far evaded payment. Rumour has it that the spammer has converted his ill-gotten gains into gold bars and buried them.

I have to say that most of the spam I receive these days is in Asian characters of some sort. It’s incredibly depressing to have all this, I think, Japanese porn, pouring into my in box in the morning, in great wads of 20 or 30 at a time. It’s like a slap in the face.

I’m also inundated with fake Paypal emails, which has caused me to miss a genuine order that came in via Paypal for one of our dedicated stories on Storynory.

I suppose I’ve been careless with my various email addresses. There is a price to pay for such carelessness.