According to this article written by Kathleen Maher, a lawyer with the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, lawyers may use the Title “Doctor” if it is not prohibited in their state of Practice.

She writes:

The committee advised, however, that it may be misleading for a lawyer to use doctor in certain contexts, such as advertising legal services relating to medical malpractice, because of the possibility of misleading prospective clients about a lawyer’s qualifications and the results he or she might achieve. In those instances, the committee said, the advertising should include a prominent disclaimer and statement about the lawyer’s qualifications.

That’s a pretty good prescription to follow, at least in states where lawyers are not prohibited outright from calling themselves doctor.

Information for this topic is from the ABA’s Online journal at ABANet.Org.

New York state limits the hours I can work when school is in session. Meaning, I can work between the hours of 7am to 7PM during the week and up to 3 hours on a school day (Mon-Fri) and up to 8 hours on a non school day (Holidays, Vacations, Weekends). This is as long as I do not work more than 6 days per week or more than 40 hours a week.

During the summer this is different and I can work 7am to 9pm and up to 8 hours on a given day, 6 days per week and up to 40 hours per week.

This should help to eliminate any questions on why I can not provide support on TalkShoe after 7pm during the school week.

If you have any questions on this, leave a comment below.

Now we’ve learned a much more colorful part of Anderson’s history: In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below from a 1986 LA Times story) that he was “convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation” (the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name “Lord Flathead.”

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net

I’m sure you read the post from yesterday, It is painful to me, even though I do not feel it physically.  Although, that is an issue right now in my life, it is part of life! By the Way, She is getting better. Thanks for all of your Thoughts and Praires! I will share every one of them with her.

Last week I upgraded to 2.6 of Wordpress and never got around to letting all of you know. I’ll post a review about it later. So far, I love the Word Count.

Thanks for reading and Thanks for your thoughts and praires.

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net

I am here to really, just let you all know that I will not be online for a minimum of 24 hours and an unknown maximum, not likely more than 2 weeks, but you never know. Why? Well, as I look around at 3pm I saw that my Mom’s van had pulled into the driveway, but it wasn’t my Mom driving. It was my Dad. As they walked towards the house I noticed that my mom had a Hospital tag around her wrist and a bandage on the other hand. I asked whats wrong and why are you home so early? And then I found out that they were at the hospital since 8:00 this morning.

I’d like to specifically thank all of the thoughts and praires from all of my online friends! It means a lot to me and my family.

With that said, this means that I will not be working for the next week or So. Okay. This also means that the Team in Pittsburgh will be keeping Support running while I am not available. Thanks to Dave and the rest at HQ, you guys are making it so that users can keep on getting support while I am away. THANKS! Please do not call my Phone Line for TalkShoe Support for the next week or so. Urgent issues should be reported directly to Technical Support.

Thank you for your thoughts, praires and support throughout this! I’ll be back online soon enough and I do use Ping.Fm and Mobile IM, so I can still keep you updated while I am away from the Computer.

This does mean that if there is an episode of a podcast scheduled, it is canceled until the next episode would be. More details to come later this week… If you need to contact me, please use the Contact Form.

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net

Wetpaint Nation

Wetpaint Nation actually started back in December of 2007 and then went on Hiatus until March 2008 when we decided to bring the actual Wetpaint Team on and help me out with certain things.. and look at it now. It is my biggest podcast with nearly 100 downloads each week compared to December or January that is great!

On the 5th episode of formerly ‘Wetpaint Talk’ it became Wetpaint Nation stats just started going up and up, not long after that I had gotten some of the Wetpaint Team to help me out with content and SEO help and we went even farther, along with some help from Rob White of the NMP Network – Wetpaint Nation is doing very well. That brings us to the current Audio Standings.

Along with Audio, I now have a screencast for Wetpaint Nation. The first one launched to the Wiki this afternoon. That is where we are currently for that. The future for this area of Wetpaint Nation is to just go further. Along with Screencasts, you’ll eventually see a Video version of the Podcast and then there is three different versions of Wetpaint Nation.

Other Podcasts (Coming Months)

As you probably know, I am launching 3 new podcasts in the next three months. This month, actually tomorrow is ‘The Budde Cast,’ a podcast dedicated to what is going on in my life; sort of like an audio blog, next is ‘Daily RSS Podcast,’ a podcast where I randomly choose 3-6 news articles from RSS feeds and I talk about them with some callers and see what their take on the subject is and in September I’ll be starting another podcast called, ‘Weekly SVU Podcast,’ which is a podcast based on the Television show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Well, I am a community developer, but I help in the Support area.. I like the Title: “Support Specialist”.

Here is what I do:

I work with TalkShoe users to answer questions on the Forums, FAQs, Email and I guess Friends calling me asking questions would be part of my job too! Overall, I would call my self more of a “Community Support Specialist”.

 Firefox is finally almost ready to go public! – This is pretty much the final version of Firefox 3 – short of bug fixes and little tweaks here and there.

I think this quote from Asa Dotzler sums things up nicely…

With more than 15,000 improvements over the previous release, ranging from dramatic performance and memory gains to truly innovative features like the “Awesome Bar,” Firefox 3 is the no-compromise browser that puts you back in control of your Web experience.

So, are you ready to give it a try? If so, Check out the Firefox website for Firefox 3 RC1. I give it two thumbs up as of this morning!

Well, for those that want to trade links or banners. You can send me an email at podcast@buddes.net with the following things:

• URL of Blog or Website
•  Your Name
• Name of Blog or Website
• 440px × 56px Banner (If you want to do a Banner Exchange)

Along with this, if you would like to have a chance to have your blog or website featured on Tech Nation’s weekly segment starting on June 6th. Send a link, your name, and site name and we will check it out and will decide if it will be one of our site of the week.

As always, thanks for all of the readers and linking. It is great and if you have any ideas, Let me know. Oh and I was wondering, what do you think of “top 5 diggs of the week”?

Just wanted to let you know, before I go to bed.. That my blog now has a new look, that I like a little better. We will be able to use this until I can put a theme of my own together.

Let me know what you think of the new look!

Josh