I may not be a musician myself but I have friends who are and they tell me that it is really not easy to get that big break. I feel that local musicians need to have enough exposure to get noticed but there are not that many avenues for them, unfortunately.

This morning, I was told of LocalBandsOnline.net, a website that allows local bands in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia to showcase their talent and bring attention to their music to event planners, promoters, talent scout, music executives and everyone in the music industry around the world.

LocalBandsOnline.net is a paid membership site. If you are interested to sign up, please email: info@localbandsonline.net. The official launch of the website is 15th October, 2008.

Facebook has confirmed that co-founder and head engineer Dustin Moskovitz, will leave Facebook in a month’s time along with manager Justin Rosenstein to set up a new start up internet company. A number of top executives have left Facebook this year alone and they are planning to move their headquarters to Dublin, Ireland.

As a Facebook user for a long while now, it’s exciting to see so many changes not only site-side but management-side as well. One has to wonder if Facebook will be sold to larger internet corporations like MySpace, Bebo, PayPal and others.

Currently, Microsoft Corp. has a minor stake in Facebook so I think if major shareholders decide to sell Facebook, Microsoft Corp. would probably have the first option.

Whatever the case, it’s amazing how, within just a few short years, Facebook has exploded among internet users around the world. It is said that there are more than 100 million Facebook users now but I personally know of individuals who hold countless accounts to level themselves up in the various games in Facebook. These are the people who inflate the membership number.

I read an article on the New Straits Times Online yesterday on DNS poisoning and it mentions that it is a step up from phishing. While we have a slight control over email phishing and all we have to do to safeguard our information is not to simply click on any link that come in via email, Private Message or Instant Message, for DNS poisoning, many people would unsuspectingly surf on replica websites because the DNS servers have been changed by hijackers. That is certainly scary and dangerous, isn’t it?

Also, I am glad to be reminded that free public wi-fi is great, like the Penang state-wide wi-fi project that I mentioned in my previous post, we really have to be extra careful using free wi-fi which is not password locked. Never use free wi-fi to surf financial websites or websites that require you to disclose personal and sensitive over the web. You would be better off performing internet banking or online transactions in a secure environment like your home.

I was happy to read about Penang’s state-wide wireless internet connectivity project a couple of days ago. It’s great news even though I am not in Penang and may never get to enjoy it but I love the concept and I think that it’s awesome to have access to free wireless internet connectivity wherever one is within the State.

Perak also had such a project before but it was not successful. I do get to connect to the free wifi but I never get to do anything with that connection. I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s due to congestion or maybe they require specific setting or something.

Anyway, yesterday, the Chief Minister of Penang mentioned that if such a project of state-wide wireless internet connectivity is harmful to health, he will scrap the project. So my question is if wireless internet connection is harmful to health. That is certainly news to me and I am concerned because my home is wirelessly connected too.