Millenium Trigoly - Vol. 1

The “Millennium Trilogy” is a publishing sensation in France, UK and many other European countries (not to mention Sweden the country of the author). It is an epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, and addressing the themes of investigative journalism, the moral bankruptcy of big capital and the contemporary culture of corruption.

The first volume has been published in English under the title “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” and in French as “Les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les femmes“.

According to amazon.com, the book will be available in the US in September 2008.

The journalist and author Stieg Larsson died suddenly, shortly after delivering the three novels to his publisher. His website provides more biographical information as well as the announcement of a coming movie.

Maybe I should start with a warning: this entry will be a little technical.

I added a favicon to this blog and website. A favicon is a small picture an icon) associated to a website. Browsers which support favicons, display them in the URL field:




next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks (Favorites on IE):

,and next to the page’s title in the tab of the interface.

A favicon is a quick and visual way to bookmark and see a web site. In fact, in my Firefox bookmark, I have deleted the title of most of the sites I added to my bookmark toolbar and kept the favicons only. This way, I can have much more bookmarks in the bar, they are easily recognizable and accessible. Here is a portion of my bookmark toolbar (try to recognize some favicons!!):

To create, install and validate my favicon, I followed the clear instructions given on chami.com website. (in section ” Favicon from Pics”)
Finally, Smashing Magazine has recently published a series of 5 articles on favicons, including galleries of beautiful and creative favicons.

Links:
• thefavicongallery.com
• “How to create a favicon” on chami.com
• Galleries on Smashing Magazine