The MINI secret (not) revealed

A couple of days ago I revealed more about the new MINI ad campaign, which includes a “decoder kit” shipped to every MINI owners, and adverts appearing in various magazines; I’m now prepared to reveal what happens when you decode the first advert! Exciting ๐Ÿ™‚

Here is the advert and the decoder – you can see how the decoder is the exact size needed to fit over the roof of the MINI in the advert:


To decode the advert, you have to place the decoder over the MINI roof and position it correctly, so that various text and graphics are very coolly revealed … like this:

(thanks to my lovely assistant, Margaret, for helping with this)

As you can see in the picture, it’s quite tricky to get the thing lined up and decoded – you have to get the decoder flat on the advert and you need to “jiggle” up and down to get it right.
Once done, you can read all the text, recognize the graphic, and read a website address where you can learn more …

Hacked!

Sorry about that ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

Some “tactical” fools decided to replace the “SSI” file on my site – this file normally creates the right hand column of links, etc and so instead allowed them to temporarily overlay every one of my webpages with some junk graphic.

The original file is back and all seems fine – as far as I can tell, they were able to do this because by default MovableType deliberately creates files with the “world write” attribute turned on! Don’t know why, but it’s annoying.

I’ve turned it off, and asked MT for guidance; meanwhile I’m hoping that (a) it doesn’t cause any other troubles and (b) my site is now safe again.

I suppose I should be flattered that someone thought my site worth targetting! ๐Ÿ˜‰