Welcome Back to A Fresh and Clean LJC . . .
It’s been a long weekend to say the least, and unfortunately none of it has to do with Latin Jazz. After a long week of work and a series of concerts from my high school music groups, I returned home to find that Google had tagged LJC as an attack site, spreading badware to its visitors. I had never encountered anything like this before, and at first, I had no idea how to handle it. After a good deal of research, I figured out that LJC had been hacked, and a spam-spreading virus had been attached to its files. I attacked the virus from many angles, and there were several points were I thought that I had defeated it – but it just kept coming back. I eventually had to rebuild LJC completely, destroying the troubling virus for good. After doing all of this, Google reviewed the site, determined that it was free of badware, and removed their warning. It was an inconvenient and interesting learning experience that ate away at the majority of my weekend.
On the positive side of things, LJC is free of any badware and you can freely browse the site without any worries. My apologies for any inconvenience over the weekend, I hope that this didn’t cause problems for any readers. I did literally have to rebuild the site from scratch, so if you encounter any technical problems – broken links, missing images, etc . . . – please do let me know. My hope is that everything should be back to normal, so please, enjoy some Latin Jazz!
On the flip side, resolving this problem literally did take most of the weekend for me – time that I would have used to prepare for the upcoming week’s articles. So expect this week to be a little thin, and I’ll catch up to speed next week. Once again, my apologies to LJC readers; this one caught me by surprise and completely threw off my schedule.
In the meantime, enjoy the archives, I’ve provided a couple of good links below. In the next couple of days, I’ll be back with some new thoughts on Latin Jazz!
8 Tito Puente Albums To Kickstart Your Latin Jazz Record Collection
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Madera (Part 1)
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Madera (Part 2)
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Madera (Part 3)
Orlando Lopez (1933 – 2009): 5 Albums To Help Remember Cachaito
10 Latin Jazz Perspectives On Freddie Hubbard
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