There was a change to google's search ranking algorithm called panda, recently, and it seems to have had a negative impact on the placement of universe.jobs rank on google results.

For example, prior to the change, my universe.jobs profile was always the number one listing when searching on my name, and now it is often not even on the first page.

I've known other members who have seen their universe.jobs page fall of their search results…

Questions of character can be harmful

While the rest of the country struggles with employment, the Texas economy, and Houston economy, continue to outperform the rest of the country. Texas has one of the two or three lowest unemployment rates in the country. The unemployment rate in Texas has consistently been at, or below, half that of the rest of the country.

The lack of a state income tax certainly helps, as do the business friendly policies of the State of Texas Government. There’s a lesson for Washington, in the…

I've run across many scams on craigslist, one of which involves scammers pretending to be some type of payment processor, needing your help.

They often claim to be a foreign bank, needing help processing payments.  They then send you worthless and fruadulent checks.   They are hoping that you'll be foolish enough to buy into the scam.   I had one send me a check, and state I could keep a portion and then send the rest on via western union.

They hope you'll be…