A Long Hot Summer

Well it's Las Vegas so summers are always long and hot here, but over all, it's been a wearying summer for many.  Here's a bunch of random things since I don't have anything specific to write about this week:

• Helene Neville, fellow marathon runner and friend of mine from Las Vegas, is wrapping up her run around the US.  She is completing the fourth leg of her 9000+ mile run by running across the northern tier of the US dodging storms and high heat and 30-40 mile days.  She will finish up on September 5th in Ocean Shores, WA.  Wow.
• Other friends are on the fire lines in Washington State battling a number of wild fires.  This is a good place to track wild fire activity in the state, other states have similar websites.
• Coming up next week--DEFCON 23.  If you are a hacker, wanna be hacker, or just interested in a wide range of hacking-related topics this is the place to be.
• You will also find a bunch of infosec folks at Black Hat this week.
• Also coming up this week: National Night Out.  Many law enforcement agencies and community groups throughout the country will host these community festivals which focus on community policing and safety.  
• Windows 10 was released this past week.  While I usually wait to see how badly a new operating system will crash and burn before jumping on the bandwagon myself, techie folks weren't reporting any major problems with it so I went ahead and downloaded it which was a thoroughly painless process.  If you are using Windows 10, however, be sure to check and double check your privacy settings (although nothing you do these days online is really private...).