alexist

Today i got an e-mail claiming to be about an AP Bio course. Now, I'm a little old to be in AP Bio (Brits: roughly A-Level) so it must be a mistake, right? It was sent to my old address from the US; easy enough to use alexis1@... by mistake. Especially since I used the largest ISP on Long Island.

What makes me suspicious is that it asks for confirmation of your e-mail address--so it might just be a very plausible-looking address harvester. (The sender e-mail address is hotmail, so not verifiable in any way.) (Though it was actually sent from hotmail, and the originating IP is from, funnily enough, my old ISP.)

Or maybe I'm just tech-savvy and paranoid....

Yesterday it hit 100°F (38°C) in New York--the heat index was 113°F/45°C. Apparently the heat index won't go below 90, even at night. (ow--checked current conditions on the Weather Underground. Temperature 93, heat index 105.) And tomorrow is expected to be 104°F!

I'm glad I'm not back there right now... it's so hot the air conditioning has trouble coping :( (And electricity demand is so high that there's the risk of brownouts. The Mayor has ordered some facilities to use generators to take pressure off the grid.)