Today I thought I will write a small entry about Los Angeles Criminal Defense Blog | California Criminal Attorneys Law Blog. This blog is maintained by former Los Angeles Prosecutors, and discusses issues concerning California criminal law. You will find plenty of interesting topics there, if you have interest in reading about strategies in the defense of state and federal crimes or if you like — analysis of celebrity prosecution, staring from the famous and never ending cases of Lindsay Lohan, and up to the world’s most intriguing case of Paris Hilton. For anyone who is not a pro when it comes to criminal law yet curious about various “hooks” in the defense and what happens and can happen behind the scenes, this is going to be a very good read.

Among the blog’s authors are lawyer Dmitry Gorin, who is a Professor at UCLA and Pepperdine Law School, and provides frequent commentary on Court TV.

While we always discuss design here on this blog, we sometimes forget that we actually live in our houses, and our house design is far more important than our blogs design! Today I was just browsing the web and founds a few great design ideas… For instance — Wrought Iron Furniture and Decor, in fact can be pretty charming and even cosy, even though I always thought they would turn the house into a cold office-looking space. When browsing all these home decor websites, I cannot wait to add some decor to my own house…

There are many opinions nowadays, what is better — broadband connection or wi fi connection? Basically it all comes down to speed and price and the ratio between speed and price. If you find a cheap and good provider in your area, you can just select the speed of your choice (again, it depends of your computer is portable or not).

For instance — bt.com is a quite well known provider, which we all know by the prices they offer (8MB download speed for less than 9 pounds a month is definitely a fantastic deal!). I personally have a wired hub with lesser speed but what they offer not only is by far cheaper than my provider, but also comes with wireless BT home hub and Vision digital TV recorder. All this with guaranteed security and low price. Not a bad deal at all!

Moreover, cruising through their website I also found a customers survey, you can take part and someone will take 200 pounds prize home, so if you are already their customer it is a good timing to express your honest opinion about their service.

Probably you have already heard about BuildASign.com — this company specializes practically in anything when it comes to design, from plywood signs, to car magnets, banners, street signs and many other products. The main advantage of BuildASign.com over other competitors, is the unbeatably low prices, for which you can get custom signs. You can customize your design online, without having t hire a designer, which saves time and of cause a lot of money.

How low are the prices? Well, for example a 18″ x 24″ sign would cost starting from $27, and if you order 2 of them, you can get up to 32% discount. The discounts table is really unbelievable and worth checking. Ordering is available directly online, very fast, very easy and above all — very cheap.

Forumer.com, which is one of the largest free forum hosting companies currently available online, is celebrating their 4th birthday and to show their members how much they care and love them, one of the randomly selected members will get to take a piece of a pie home — new Nokia N810 tablet UMPC.

If you want to enter the contest, please read the instructions here. As said already, the winner will be selected by a computer, but bear in mind that you are allowed to make unlimited entries in the contest box — naturally, the more entries, the bigger are your chances. Good Luck!

It’s not a secret anymore that no one buys anything over the Internet nowadays before they compare prices with other websites. The problem starts when we want to purchase a popular item, such as mp3 player, because there are millions of websites that sell it.

This is why comparison websites are so useful nowadays. When I wanted to purchase MP3 player, I went to savebuckets.co.uk, as it was recommended to me by a few friends, to see who gives the best deal online. I was surprised to see a clean and neat website without adverts that offer you to compare prices in a very convenient manner. All you need to do is input your keyword, give price range and sort the search results in according to your convenience. That’s it, now everything is under your nose, just pick the best offer and go shopping!

The leading email marketing company we all know about — iContact, has reached some time ago an impressive new milestone — 100,000 users worldwide, and now launched a unique feature to support the expanding community — called the iContact Community. This allows visitors to leave a comment, rate and discuss email newsletters, making email interactive for the first time and enabling subscriber discussions around email content.

This turns an ordinary email marketing company mechanism into an interactive, users-friendly support community where visitors have a say. It might look similar to dig, as users can register, create public profiles, and categorize content they like, however, iContact community gives much more to its users. Apart from the ability to vote on your favorite content, comment, view the top ranked content within each of the 18 categories and  discuss topics of your interest in the forums, you are also able to vote on a newsletter that you feel has great content and see it move up in its category. Currently iContact Community has over 120,000 registered members  and this number grows by the day.

So, how can you benefit from it?

This is an idea solution if you consider publishing  your email newsletters to the iContact Community as they can help you grow your list and easily reach your subscribers with very good inbox deliverability.

How much does it cost? 

First of all, you can sign up for a free trial of iContact and if you decide to extend your membership, paid plans starts at $9.95 per month. iContact has an impressive portfolio of respectable clients including Remax, Ford, CBS, Symantec, and AT&T, so you will be in a good neighborhood and enjoy the friendly environment of users with similar interests.

Since I have a dog myself, I know that these sweet domestic pets can be a joy or a horror with many shades in between. Smalls dogs are never really a problem, however, the biggest ones, if they are not trained well, can cause a lot of harm to both owner and people who come in contact with a dog. When we are unable to restrain the dog, and when our pet doesn’t know any command we may end up with a dog that attacks anyone he wishes, when he wishes and practically, the dog will own us, and not the other way around.

Today I read about Chicago dog trainer, which is one of the foremost dog trainers who offers free training tips and information gathered from over 30 years of professionally training dogs. This is really a great find for any big size dog owner, since training a dog on practice is not always easy. My dog, for instance, has never been trained and as a result I am dealing everyday with disobedient and spoil huge animal, that never listens to me. I strongly recommend to take a look at the tips they offer on their website, as it can be a great source of information and help, for free.