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Litmus - The advanced testing tool for web professionals.

2009-02-02T16:12:00.002+08:00

The advanced testing tool for web professionals.

http://litmusapp.com/

Small vs Big

2009-02-02T15:51:00.001+08:00

When you are starting out as freelance designer or a small design agency, you may worry whether or not clients perceive you as big agency. You shouldn’t. There are plenty of reasons why being small is good and big is bad

1. Small agencies tend to cost less and produce more. Because your overhead is smaller, you are able to reduce the hourly fee.

2. Your creative isn’t design by committee. You have a style and it shows through. With larger agencies, the good ideas tend to get watered down and never presented to the client. Plus, big agencies stop at three ideas. However, because you have put your own feelings into the ideas, you are more willing to show the client four or even five different concepts

3. You have the final say—budget, timeline, extra round of changes, it’s all up to you. The client understands that a smaller company is more willing to work with them to ensure the project is successful. If the working relationship is strong, the client knows you will be willing to do one more change or work late to get the job done. And this is a good thing, this is what sets you apart from the big guys.

So, next time you pitch a client and want to sell your company over a larger agency, bring up these points along with the other individual things that make your company special. (Yes, an office pet is special and a good source for filling silence before a meeting.)

Source:Designers Toolbox 2008/10/06
http://www.designerstoolbox.com/designlife/?p=20

祝身體健康

2009-01-25T00:51:00.000+08:00

喬布斯信眾祝喬布斯
身體健康

蕭若元就特首"講粗口"事件讀出一份嚴正公開信

2009-01-22T15:10:00.001+08:00

Our distance, a billion millimeters

2009-01-20T18:24:00.004+08:00

Our distance, a billion millimeters
http://www.lovedistance.jp/

Be patient to watch till the end of the introduction and you will found out the distant of love.

崖上的波兒 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea @ 久石譲 Joe Hisaishi 2008

2009-01-14T12:45:00.000+08:00

NVIDIA Speak Visual

2009-01-12T16:45:00.003+08:00

http://www.speakvisual.com/

Nice design layout, simple but sweet.

石

2009-01-09T15:02:00.002+08:00

「世界新七大自然奇跡」入圍名單，香港嘅望夫石榜上有名，同美國嘅大峽谷、珠峰、大堡礁等等，爭入最後嘅七強。嘩，呢個咁意外嘅結果，直頭好似電視台嘅音樂頒獎禮咁，最受歡迎都可以係爆冷。

香港嘅望夫石可以同大峽谷齊名，咪《囍帖街》同《Phantom of the Opera》齊齊上台攞獎？香港嘅望夫石入圍大自然奇跡，一定會令到佢班Fans，即係嗰啲日日係屋企等老公係大陸返嚟嘅太太們高興。

不過查實香港除咗望夫石之外，仲有好多好出名嘅石，應該有資格入選大自然奇跡，譬如「碳石」。「碳石」乃係一舊石上面，有好多燒過嘅碳嘅行跡，通常都係有人去燒烤場搵唔到位之後，就霸王硬上弓，搵隔離嗰舊石，就係上面燒佢醃咗嘅雞翼、嗰件豬扒、成條大香腸就咁B佢嗰BQ，之後就非常無手尾留低嗰啲碳灰殘餘物，久而久之，舊石就會變成「碳石」。「碳石」絕對係香港嘅一個奇跡。

除咗「碳石」之外，係香港各大郊外時常會出現嘅大自然奇跡就係「爆石」。「爆石」顧名思義就係有郊遊嘅人士因為人有三「屎」急，搵唔到洗手間，就用幾舊石仔，自製咗一個類似圍牆嘅小擺設，然後褲頭一鬆，雙腳一蹲，Pengpong一聲，就係嗰個自製天然流動廁所上面爆咗舊石，就係為之「爆石」。通常爆出嚟嗰舊石上面都會有啲tantle, tanmo或者tanple之類嘅Tissue遮住咗佢，跟住佢就會抽褲起身拍拍屁股走人。「爆石」都乃係香港特有嘅大自然奇跡。

除此之外，仲有商場好多舖頭買嗰啲咩鬼嘢水晶石、瑪瑙石，又話可以改運、改風水、改運程、改名、改姓、改地球，嗰啲咁樣，呢啲石奇在係有人賣、有人買、有人擺、有人戴，嗰吓奇。

查實小弟屋企樓下都有一啲石，絕對可以入呢一個大自然嘅奇跡，就係大堂最近換嗰啲雲石。呢一個係香港特有奇景，辛勞半生，畀首期，每月供大半嘅人工或者以上，有好多都係去咗呢一啲每日踩出踩入，又濁又玉嘅雲石。呢一啲雲石唔入新七大奇景，砌低嗰啲最靚嘅大峽谷、大堡礁，真係乜都得喇。

再數，仲有另外一種石都應該要入圍，就係我哋由細睇到大，係呢一個歡樂滿東華、台慶、星光熠熠賀新春裏面，嗰啲叫「心口碎大石」。呢一舊「心口碎大石」，犀利在從來都無碎到嗰心口，淨係碎到舊石，查實觀眾睇到幾無癮。

各位觀眾，「心口碎大石」可能比較普通，雕蟲小技。以下呢舊石肯定比望夫石多人鍾意，無理由唔可以成為世界大自然奇跡，就係香港人好鍾意嘅「落井下石」，唔係世界之最咩？掟石喇！

Source:林海峰-維園阿伯 2009/01/09

Phil Schiller Death Dive, MacWorld New York 1999

2009-01-07T02:05:00.003+08:00

Steve亦因健康問題不出席今年Keynote，Phil成為今年Keynote的焦點，Phil雖經常為apple賣命，但頭上的光環Steve的那個耀眼。

Steve Jobs 無事

2009-01-06T13:09:00.007+08:00

"Steve Jobs 無事" 這句說話很無聊。
好比早前傳聞指 Steve Jobs 會死的傳聞無聊。

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO。我通常以「教宗」或「精神領袖」來比喻他，因為我是他信徙之一。

Steve Jobs 為了回應一眾信徙及 Apple Inc 股東對他健康的擔憂寫了一篇公開信，他說他今年不發表 MWSF Keynote 的因由。

"Steve Jobs 無事" 雖然這句說話很無聊，但亦令很多人放下心頭之石。

January 5, 2009
Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

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TRANSFORMERS - MAC Vs PC

2009-01-06T10:00:00.004+08:00

The most funny part is the PC need a sort of "upgrade" from Vista to XP.

Engrish

2009-01-05T18:10:00.002+08:00

http://www.engrish.com/

Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design.

Happy New Year~~

2009-01-01T00:00:00.001+08:00

Happy and all the Best in 2009

I LOVE KYOTO

2008-12-23T12:55:00.014+08:00

Kyoto, I Will Always Love You

If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you every step of the way.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you. Hmmm.

Season Greetings~~

2008-12-23T10:27:00.003+08:00

How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs

2008-12-22T01:35:00.002+08:00

Apple Inc. set off shock waves Tuesday by announcing Steve Jobs will not speak at what the company said would be its final appearance at the Macworld trade show. The news sent the company's stock downward, and raised questions about whether Mr. Jobs had new health problems or some new products were not ready.

But another question is likely to persist after the debate dies down: How well could Apple keep up the pace of new products without its iconic chief executive?

Speculation about the continued reign of Mr. Jobs -- which has popped up from time to time since his 2004 treatment for cancer -- underscore how closely Apple's fashion-setting products are identified with its co-founder. There is no sign of any change in his status; an Apple spokesman won't address the issue of his health, but said, "If Steve or the board decides that Steve is no longer capable of doing his job as CEO of Apple, I am sure they will let you know."

What if that situation does change? There is reason for optimism, based on the evolution of the team that develops Apple's hardware, software and services, some people familiar with the company's internal workings say. Some of them believe the group is now strong enough that, barring an exodus of top talent, the company could keep churning out innovative products without Mr. Jobs.

Mr. Jobs did not respond to a request for comment.

In one possible sign of confidence in the management team, an unprecedented number of executives presented during the company's press event to unveil its new MacBook lineup in October, though Mr. Jobs still dominated the event.

Mr. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997— he had left in 1985— and has since overseen the introduction of such ground-breaking products as the iMac, iPod and iPhone. He plays an unusually important role for a CEO in the gestation of such gadgets, agonizing over details that could impact users' experience.

Not that Mr. Jobs actually designs products himself. He serves more like an "editor in chief" in refining and improving ideas for Apple gadgets, according to former Apple executives.

"He didn't come up with the ideas, he just filtered them," says Bill Bull, a retired Apple engineer who worked for Mr. Jobs at Apple in the 1980s and again after Mr. Jobs returned.

The hands-on work of Apple's innovations depend more directly on subordinates such as Jonathan Ive, an Apple senior vice president who oversees the company's industrial design team. His group is primarily associated with the physical look and feel of products, such as the unusually slender Macbook Air.

Scott Forstall, another senior vice president, leads the team responsible for the iPhone's operating system and other software. In a sign of his growing importance at the company, Mr. Forstall was twice given the chance to speak at media and technical events earlier this year--and has shown some of the same showmanship that is Mr. Jobs' trademark.

Other crucial figures at Apple now include Ron Johnson, senior vice president of Apple retail, who has masterminded the success of Apple's stores, the hip electronics emporiums that have played a crucial role in the growth of the iPod and Macintosh in recent years.

One change to the team was the announcement in early November that Tony Fadell was stepping down as senior vice president of Apple's iPod division, which makes the innards of those popular gadgets carry out their products' slick features. He first conceived of the iPod, and convinced Mr. Jobs to support the idea despite skepticism from others in the company. Mr. Fadell said he will remain an adviser to Mr. Jobs; Mark Papermaster, a former International Business Machines Corp. executive, has been named to assume the iPod post.

For every design project in the pipeline, Mr. Jobs will hold meetings of two or three hours every week or two with key members of the product team. At those meetings, Mr. Jobs will critique the work in progress and also suggest adding or cutting features.

Glenn Reid, a software developer during Apple's early years who had another stint at the company that ended in 2003, recalls one such meeting just days before a photo-editing program was to go into production. Mr. Jobs decided at the last minute that an index feature on the software made the system unnecessarily complex, and decided to eliminate it, even though documentation for the product had already been printed. It was frustrating to Mr. Reid and his software team, "but it made the product better," Mr. Reid says.

Mr. Jobs's unwillingness to accept compromises – and the unquestioned authority that lets him issue last-minute edicts – have become a key to Apple's success in developing new products, Mr. Reid says. George Crow, an Apple engineer in the 1980s and again from 1998 to 2005, noted that the company struggled during the years when Mr. Jobs was not running Apple.

On the other hand, certain of Mr. Jobs's uncompromising principles with computers – such as wanting "to make the inside beautiful" – ran counter to more practical impulses. On the original Macintosh PC, Mr. Crow says, Mr. Jobs wanted the internal wiring to be in the colors of Apple's early rainbow logo (Mr. Crow says he eventually convinced Mr. Jobs it was an unnecessary expense). On another machine that Mr. Crow worked on for NeXT – the computer maker Mr. Jobs founded between Apple stints – he says Mr. Jobs insisted that the internal power supply be nickel plated, an expensive ornamentation that was eventually discontinued.

More recently, Mr. Crow says, he lobbied for the power supply on an Apple notebook PC to have a flexible rubber piece at the base of the power cord to keep it from pulling out. But designers working for Mr. Ive were set on a design without the piece of rubber, Mr. Crow says, since it looked sleeker. Eventually, a high rate of returns due to the cord pulling out led Apple to add the rubber piece, he says.

Michael Mace, who worked at Apple during Mr. Jobs's absence, argues that Apple should have a successor on the product side who's given a mandate to singlehandedly make key decisions, like Mr. Jobs does now. When Mr. Jobs was gone, Mr. Mace said, good ideas were often lost when committees of executives would compromise too much. "What they would choose was the safest design," he said, rather than the best one.

But Mr. Crow contends that Mr. Jobs has now hired or elevated enough people whose product vision mirrors his that the company could continue to thrive. Mr. Ive is particularly in tune with Mr. Jobs's thinking, he notes. Mr. Jobs's sensibilities are also so deeply ingrained in lower-ranking designers and engineers that "a lot of people there will say 'gee, what would Steve think about this,' when Steve really isn't thinking about it," Mr. Crow says.

Rick Devine, an executive recruiter in Silicon Valley with Devine Capital Partners, thinks Apple could continue to thrive in a post-Jobs world, predicting that the company will depend more on execution in the coming years than the kind of radical reshaping Mr. Jobs engineered over the past decade. Mr. Devine helped recruit Tim Cook, now Apple's chief operating officer, to the company more than a decade ago.

Mr. Cook, who briefly ran Apple during Mr. Jobs's cancer treatment four years ago, is widely expected to immediately pick up the reins again if that were to become necessary. But the choice of a permanent successor may be another question.

Apple won't discuss details of its succession plan. But Mr. Devine expects Apple to do something like what Walt Disney Co. did a few years ago in picking a CEO; the entertainment giant considered an internal candidate, Robert Iger, as well with outside executives such as eBay Inc.'s former CEO Meg Whitman.

He said corporate boards rarely disclose in advance of a formal CEO search who the most likely internal candidate is for the top job. "That's not healthy for the four or five people who would like to be considered for the role," Mr. Devine says.

Most observers believe that without Mr. Jobs -- whose on-stage product revelations have become major media events -- the "kind of excitement that comes out on a periodic basis would be far less," said Charlie Wolf, an analyst who follows Apple for Needham & Co.

There is little sign that Mr. Jobs is ready to give up the position of public pitchman, despite Apple's announcement Tuesday that said the keynote presentation at this year's Macworld show in early January will be given by Phillip Schiller, its marketing chief. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling traced the switch to its decision to stop using Macworld as a major forum.

Though Mr. Jobs's gaunt appearance at an event last June event set off jitters about his health, subsequent statements Mr. Jobs made to associates suggested little reason for concern, people familiar with the matter say. He told associates that he recovered from an infection that kept him bedridden for several days before the June event, and previously had surgery to correct a digestive problem that caused weight loss, these people say. Mr. Jobs also told people at that time that he was cancer-free.

By JUSTIN SCHECK and NICK WINGFIELD
Source:wsj.com 2008/12/19

教你拍出聖誕氣氛：創意散景 DIY

2008-12-18T23:37:00.017+08:00

攝影講求創意，假如單靠器材，很多時候便難以拍出好作品。其實除了拍攝時多嘗試不同的角度，大家亦可從相片的散景著手。趁著聖誕越來越近，相信不少影支已經開始出外拍攝燈飾，今期 DCFever.com 便教大家 DIY 造出不同的散景效果，實行以零成本，攝出無窮創意。

Details:
http://www.dcfever.com/news/readnews.php?id=2602

Source:DCFever 2008/12/18

王維基的辭職聲明

2008-12-18T09:42:00.006+08:00

因工作關係曾接觸王維基，這個人十分討厭，但因為他這種討厭亦令我十分欣賞他。

早前聽到王維基加盟亞視的消息感覺十分興奮，因以王維基的處事作風，會為電視界帶來一場革命，相信大部份觀眾都不希望無記繼續一台獨大。他的離開，損失的並不是亞視，而是香港的電視觀眾。

各位朋友：

過了這十二天，我上了人生寶貴的一課 : 堅持直率，用辭謹慎。

亞洲電視是一個具有使命和社會責任的機構，無論從香港人的立場還是其他因素來考慮，亞視始終是一個香港人的電視台，我認為這個方向至今依然正確。香港的人均本地生產總值是內地十多倍，中國是我們的國家，有能力時，我們應該想想有什麼貢獻，而不是過份依賴。

亞視始終是一間商營機稱，他的希望在於自己，不可以長期依靠賑助。亞視從新定位，讓創作有更大的空間、讓觀眾有更多選擇，令亞視成為香港有公信力的媒體，這是我們三人的共同夢想。直至今天，我依然擁抱這個熱切期待。

從接受這份工作的第一天起，我已經知道這是一項艱鉅的任務。聽張永霖先生所言：「出任執行主席一職，百感交集，戰戰兢兢，如履薄冰。」，我就想起康有為先生廢除八股文，一段可歌可泣的歷史。

沒有膽識，就幹不了大事。

要改革，我沒有想過得到全部人的認同；改革的過程中，我們要面對固有利益者的強大阻力；要改革成功，就一定要迅速、全面和徹底，更重要的是，要有後備計劃。以上種種，我已經有充足準備。過往四年，我在城市電訊亦在進行過類似改革工作，公司由幾年前虧損數億元到今天賺一億二千多萬。我認為這種全面改革，對亞視來說是必須的；改革的目的，是要令員工對自己的公司、工作和人生重投信心，感到驕傲。

我不是一個輕言放棄的人，我已盡我的最大努力。我依然深信我所做的大部份事，對亞視和員工都是正確和有利的，只是，大家的步伐並不一致。我也曾經說過，我已經愛上這間公司，因為那裡充滿希望和優秀的前線員工，這種想法至今不變。我一直以堅持直率，真心待人，所做的一切，都從亞視和員工的利益為出發點。

最後，我想提提張永霖先生，因為我在他身上學到很多。正如Linus說過，我們是背對背的，無其他人可以離間我們。雖然在短暫的未來，我不能再和他一起為亞視服務，但我會繼續默默的支持他。

可能我倆實在太用心去做事，根本不單止當這是一份工作，更將亞視當成自己的公司。若我們之間任何一個出現差錯，都只因為太過用心、太過投入。由始至終，我沒有考慮過自己個人的成敗和利益，我們只有一個焦點：怎樣才可以令亞視走上成功之路。可惜，事情發展就像很多愛情故事一様，你最愛的，不一定是和你結婚和生活的那位。

我們擁有一個共同目標，只可惜，在日常運作上出現不同看法。就好像爸爸媽媽照顧他們的嬰孩一樣，孩子過了晚上的飲奶時間，仍然熟睡。到底應該由他安睡，還是叫醒他喝奶呢？雖然觀點不同，大家都只是希望用最好的方法去照顧孩子，愛心卻是共通的。

大家都同意，要為亞視建立新文化和新路向。我選擇在這時退下來，應該是最恰當的做法。

無論如何，在過往的十二天，我倆一直緊密合作，所做的每一件事、每一個決定都有我們的共同意見和討論。藉此，我衷心感謝他帶領我走過這一段路。

工作完結了，兄弟情仍在。

最後，是關於亞洲小姐面試的。我用錯字眼，但我絕無半點不尊重之意，失言亦是無心之失。無論如何，我必須承認這是一個錯誤。對此我深感歉疚，衷心希望得到佳麗和大眾的原諒。

王維基
二零零八年十二月十七日

亞洲電視領導層與員工會面 2008年12月9日

2008-12-16T12:22:00.001+08:00

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Dog Hero, I Admired You~~

2008-12-09T23:07:00.001+08:00

Secret Mark Throwing Star Magnets

2008-12-05T13:23:00.004+08:00

http://www.epauletshop.com/servlet/the-92/Secret-Mark-Throwing-Star/Detail

osaka trip 22-28 Nov 2008

2008-12-04T01:11:00.005+08:00

More Photos on My Flickr Group

聖誕節、萬聖節中間係咩節？

2008-11-18T12:41:00.003+08:00

海洋公園近期的宣傳問一個問題聖誕節「萬聖節中間係咩節？」。

我都想問designer一個問題：「紙紮公仔代表咩節？」

有錢使仲煩

2008-11-14T14:59:00.001+08:00

冇錢使，煩；有得使，仲煩。家陣間間舖頭做特價，未幫襯先眼瞓。眼瞓係因為要聽售貨員解釋，點樣依家買兩件80蚊，加多一件平10蚊；如果50蚊買四件，又可以送多一件；咁一次過買四對就一千蚊；若果八對就回番一百蚊；一百蚊買五件送一蚊；一蚊一碟，食到十碟免費送多一碟；呢一碟原本八蚊，依家特價做梗四蚊，但要食番三碟，咁就買番一件，再補多八蚊，就現金回贈60蚊；特價到聖誕，星期六日仲有兩折，星期一至五就冇，但係平時買滿一千蚊就可以有24 小時免費泊車；若果泊四架車可以有八五折。嘩，你話係咪有得使，仲煩呢？

減價招數之多，有如海嘯個勢咁，湧埋嚟啲消費者度。以往係消費者入去講價，家陣調轉，推銷員同你講價，因為唔講唔明啊嘛，但一講就唔停。老老實實喇，間間都話平俾我，不如直接啲俾啲Cash我好唔好？

雷曼海嘯價唔凈止講梗樓盤，百貨公司都配合時勢，推出海嘯大特價，消費者得到「平」嘅同時，得到埋一堆「煩」啊。得不償失，所以呢一個世界真係No free lunch。使錢以為可以送走煩惱壞心情，點知剛剛相反，俾錢嘅時候又要睇下邊張卡有折，邊張卡無折咁樣，鬼咁煩。可唔可以簡簡單單一條龍啊？一張碌鬼曬咪算囉，家陣搞到成個銀包都係卡，臃臃腫腫但現金欠奉，直頭好似脂肪咁：「大嚿無用」。

全線大減價，減價優惠又煩又多，搞到有得使都仲煩。不過，大家嗰啲算得係乜嘢，俾著你係台灣第一家庭，有咁多錢使，你唔煩咩？老老實實，呢一家人要咁多錢嚟做咩呢？究竟佢哋想買乜呢？頂多咪Sogo禮券，跟住個仔搭下飛機唔讀書慳番學費，阿扁最多揾下啲錢買下頭蠟嚟蠟下頭，要咁多錢嚟做咩嘢呢？佢哋啲錢多到可以喺月球起個地球，或者喺個地球起番個月球咁滯。諗下諗下，佢哋都幾煩，煩在有太多錢，唔知點使；煩在太太又好煩，個仔、新抱又好煩，個女仲煩，又大聲又嘈。大把錢，但家嘈屋閉，呢啲就「窄使」啦，唔怪得《家好月圓》咁好睇。

Source:林海峰-維園阿伯 2008/11/14

《冰天動地》正視全球暖化危機??!!

2008-11-14T14:52:00.008+08:00

早前睇無線電視預告，得知一個台慶鉅獻特備節目《冰天動地》，此節目帶大家到北冰洋一帶，認識冰川，認識全球暖化對北冰洋以及全球生態嘅影響，希望人類能正視全球暖化問題，北冰洋地理上與香港距離遙遠，卻與香港以及全球的氣候息息相關。無線能製作這種製作成本高昂，但教育意義重大的節目，十分值得欣賞。

以下簡介擇錄之tvb.com

以「全球暖化危機」為題，本節目將遠赴北歐國家挪威、冰島、格陵蘭，進行拍攝，見證全球最大淡水水源「冰川」的融化。本節目將深入探討冰川的形成、結構、現狀；並提出「融化」的種種成因和禍害。節目中將會訪問本港外國的地球科學家，指出人類在這個事件中所扮演的角色；並會附上各種科學實驗、電腦圖解及其他珍貴片段（熱帶雨林、沙漠、各國天災新聞片段），讓觀眾了解上危機的迫切性。

看了數集，感覺節目籌備不足，很倉卒，資訊欠奉，看見的只是主持們衣服上的巨型商標、手上的萬能手機、以及胸前的全天候相機。這種製作成本高昂的節目加一點product placement幫補製作費也在所難免, 但到看到第9集更對此節目十分失望。

第9集-從格陵蘭認識氣候變化（節目重温）
http://tv.tvb.com/travel/vanishingglacier/4111

話說主持人帶觀眾到格陵蘭某處，該處海面結冰，隨團地球科學家指出，北冰洋海面的冰面有如鏡的作用一樣，將部分來自太陽的熱能反射回太空，假如冰面融化大部分來自太陽的熱能，將會被地球吸收，加速全球暖化的禍害。鏡頭一轉，主持人手持從海面撿起的冰塊，即席示範如何可將這些冰塊擰往最遠處。

較早前還在說這些冰塊作用之大，不需一瞬間就在破壞這些關附全球人類生死全亡的冰塊。