European Journey

For the next two weeks and a half, my accompanies and myself, will be partaking on a journey into Europe. A particularly important trip, as well as a special one... which will include two stops.

The first of which will be: Berlin, Germany., June 15-19. If you've been keeping up with me on twitter, you may have previously noticed I mentioned a possible expansion of Arguelles operations into Europe. Several private British and German investors, have expressed interests in partnering with the company in general, which in terms would be a strong possibility for an Arguelles Europe division. A move which will no doubt, strengthened our already established operations; while gaining a strong presence in the European market as well. All that's left are key terms and numbers of what could be a very important step in Arguelles Corporation. Keep up with further developments by following our corporate accounts: @Arguelles_ and @ArguellesCorp.

Second stop of this journey will be: Paris, France., June 19-July 3. This is the special part of this trip. As it's in celebration of my beloved @KimberlyNash and yours truly, 5th year anniversary. No place better to celebrate, than in one of Kimberly's favorite city's in the world: Paris... The famously aforementioned 'city of light' or better regarded as the 'city of love' which is what we're celebrating... LOVE. I'd like to say - how much I deeply care and love her, may it always last forever Kimberly... Everyday I'm grateful, for the moments spent and memories made together, as well as the many more to come, I'm sure... I raise a toast to the love of my life, my princess, many cheers sweetheart!

A few of our closest friends and family members, are set to join us a week later, June 25th. Surely looking forward to having them join us during that time. After which we'll all be returning back to the US, July 3rd. Just in time for yearly Fourth of July fireworks. festivities, and good times all around...

As always you're welcome to follow me on twitter: @JayArguelles

Arguelles Hacked?

Greetings from Toronto, Canada.

While arriving yesterday to this marvelous city, I was informed that Arguelles' west coast computer network had been hacked or bugged. Immediately I thought - wow us too? Let us consider last week wasn't a very pleasant one in tech news. Several entities had been broken into: Sony, Gmail, FBI, Nintendo... now us?! WTF? right?

Although, it may not be as severe as others, this can still bring most of our operations to an undesirable halt. In this day and age, everything is done or handled by computers; Arguelles is no exception. Let me break it down for you in a simple way. Only in our west coast division we have an interconnected net of 30 computers, 4 of them are pricey studio equipment valued @ 100K each, which are used to make CGI and special effects works. Can you see our dilemma? Really wasn't happy upon hearing this had gone down.

Based on what I've heard it was a bug that locked itself and started using the servers to gain strength and spread itself on to the entire network, including external infrastructures. Don't you just love those little f*ckers? Technicians suggested this happened after someone opened an email and spread the virus from one computer to the next and so forth... the famous domino effect. We've already pinpointed exactly when and where this all started; which I really don't understand, since our security measures are quite high and systems frequently checked and upgraded. This was a very unpleasant incident nonetheless, which I'll be looking to resolve as soon as I get back to the US. I'm perplexed!

Thankfully, I've hired some of the best engineers and technicians to assist and maintain Arguelles and it's divisions. Happy to report everything is back to normal and systems fully operational. I salute you fellas, great job!

On a final note... now would be a good time to upgrade your PC settings and security software. Hackers/viruses are out on a mission to mess with everybody they can. Don't take news lightly. Cause it can happen to anyone; as we found out yesterday.

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@JayArguelles - @Arguelles_ - @ArguellesTech

Jay Arguelles Dot Com

Asked my team to do a major 'makeover' for my site. Which will include new design, more sections, photos, store, and lots of cool extras. No specific timeline has been set, but will post up when it's fully completed.

- Jay

Thanks, Carla!

Sending a BIG shout out to Carla Batchelor, just for being a sweet, beautiful and wonderful person. Got a call from my assistant this afternoon, and yes we've received your package. I honestly have to tell you both Kim and myself, are very appreciative and surprised by it all. You really shouldn't have, thank you! :-)

Our special list of family & friends, has just added a new name. Can you guess?

Warm regards, Carla, and a big hug and kiss from both Kim and I.

Thanks again!

Toronto Video Shoot

O Canada... flying out to Toronto, ON. this weekend. As part of a rescheduled shoot we had in May, but was postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions. We'll be shooting a music video from June 5-12, for an upcoming English rock band, that's been exclusively signed to Arguelles Music's label A2 Records. Have to add we're very confident in this bands potential and excited to have them in Arguelles, welcome aboard fellas!

This particular shoot has three filming stages: while driving, band play, and brief aerial shot. Setting up two units for stages one and two, last one will be shot via helicopter. All in all, a very busy week ahead of us in Arguelles.

A2 Records
Arguelles Music
Arguelles Pictures

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- Jay

Hello Bloggers

Started blogging again... last time I did was in January of 2010. I know it's been quite a while, but hopefully I'll be able to post as frequent as possible; as I intent to use this as another alternative of reaching out to all of you. So join me, lets blog together!

- Jay