* Sorry, but I couldn't resist a Crosby reference.

I was more than a little irritated over the weekend - see Faith, Hope, Charity and Manipulation - by Microsoft's use of the Japanese disaster to give the Bing search engine a little extra exposure using a chaintweet technique:

How you can #SupportJapan - http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow