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I had a problem the other day where my Mac only got as far as displaying the Spotlight icon before it just froze displaying the spinning colour wheel of doom.

My guess was that it was a font issue as I had recently (and stupidly) dragged some fonts from a local server into a Library in Font Book and my guess was that my Mac was trying to find those fonts but couldn’t as it they were on the server.

After searching around (fortunately I had another Mac handy) I found that if you only get as far as the Spotlight icon at startup it is probably because of a corrupt font cache or possible a corrupt Spotlight playlist.

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Poole Harbour’s stunning sunsets are the inspiration for a contemporary and highly visible light display on Poole Quay this Easter. The blueness of distance is a highly imaginative piece of public art created by artist Simon Lee Dicker, a graduate of Bournemouth & Poole College.

Dicker uses LED lights to produce over 250 colours that will illuminate the old marketing suite office building adjacent to the Thistle Hotel. Over a period of three months Dicker has used a series of web-cams to capture images of sunsets and has re-presented his findings as a rolling wave of colour that will re-create the many different moods stimulated by dusk over the world’s second largest natural Harbour.

The project has been possible thanks to sponsorship from local Queens Award winning engineering company Air Bearings Limited (main sponsor), Think Signs Limited, and funding from the Art Council England’s grants for the arts programme. It is also being supported by the Council’s Arts Development office and Poole Tourism, and will run from Good Friday 21st March to Sunday 13th April, dusk till 10.00pm daily.

“Contemporary society is distanced from the ‘natural’ world through the prevalence of screen based working practice and leisure activities,” says Dicker. “this installation appropriates the technology that distances us from that world and uses it to capture and represent images of the natural world through the filter of human experience.”

For further information visit Fire & Ice Creative, Somerset.

Courtesy of FDM Records, for a limited time only, here are 2 FREE downloads from Nizlopi’s brand new album MAKE IT HAPPEN which is available now to pre-order and is released on 31st March 2008 from www.nizlopi.com/shop.

• Nizlopi – Without You (388 downloads)
• Nizlopi – Start Beginning (367 downloads)

These tracks are no longer available to download but you can buy these and other Nizlopi tracks at Amazon.co.uk…

You can also view videos on YouTube of the tracks Love Is and Without You which feature on the new album.

Check out the new single “Start Beginning” from Nizlopi to be released 17th March 2008 – animation directed and produced by Mustashrik.

Pre-order it from www.nizlopi.com/shop/ or watch the full video on YouTube…

Buy other Nizlopi tracks at Amazon.co.uk…

‘Tune Up, Turn On, Stretch Out’ is the new Album from Deirdre Cartwright Group. To find out more and download tracks, visit:

www.deirdrecartwright.com