wall plaque at China Star

Review: China Star Asian buffet

The China Star Asian Buffet is a new restaurant which opened recently in the Greensburg area. The China star is located at 122 Donohoe Road, Greensburg, PA‎ and occupies the building which was formerly a Ponderosa steak house. Although the establishment's grand opening was over a month ago; I had my first dining experience there just today. First Impressions: Many local Chinese restaurants are tacky and cheaply decorated. More often than not the unfortunate decor consists of cliche chinese new year paper ornaments, tables with Chinese zodiac menu-place-mats sandwiched under glass, and low-quality paintings of waterfalls. By contrast the China Star restaurant is clean and tastefully decorated. The traditional Chinese murals displayed on the walls show a sense of restraint which helps to prevent the impression of a bad kung-fu exploitation movie from the 1970's. The employees have clever uniforms which are vaguely reminiscent of of airline stewardess uniforms (also from the1970's). The … [Read More...]

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Larsson’s Millennium trilogy in US theaters?

What are the chances that my local cinema will screen the films based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy? Slim to none, my literary friends; slim to none.
Not familiar with the Millennium trilogy? In the US, the three novels in the series are titled The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The girl Who Played With Fire, [...]

SEO Overload: Google Hates You

SEO criticism part one: Do you write for the machine?

Its no secret I hate SEO for its own sake. At some point developers need to realize two key pieces of the web experience: The author and the reader. Without content providers and readers who use search, SEO is quite obviously pointless.
If you happen to be both developer and author then I suppose the equation [...]

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Database Error

Due to a plugin who shall remain nameless, correza.com has suffered extensive database corruption. So far the errors are limited to only one blog ID. Everything else seems to be ok.
The gbgpokerstars weblog is currently offline until we figure out what is wrong with the plugin. While the plug-in couldn’t add tables to MySQL over [...]

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McDonald's: make sure your food is fast

McDonald’s fast food restaurants pride themselves on quick service (could have fooled me). From your time spent waiting in line to the time it takes your order to be served everything is done as quickly and efficiently as possible (at least as quickly and efficiently as teenagers making minimum wage can muster anyway). It would [...]