Day: November 30, 2004

Spaztastik provides “fire performers,” DJs, and rave equipment (lighting, decorations, etc).

It’s run by friend Scott, who worked with me at a startup. He was working as a sysadmin, but at the same time was a certified EMT, who was an acrobat and stunt-rode motorcycles for fun.
Web link of note: Spaztastik
(At http://www.spaztastik.info/)

“CMRN”

I was driving through Oakland and heard this staticky broadcast instead of 104.9 FM, which is a commercial pop station.

I think it may have been spillage from 104.1 FM, which is Radio Free Berkeley, a pirate station around here. Who knows!
Web link of note: Critical Mass Radio
(At http://criticalmassradio.net/)

Forest destruction is so sexy!!

Victoria’s Secret, part of Limited Brands, claims to be a good global citizen. Yet by mailing more than a million catalogs a day, the company is leading the way in global forest destruction.

Web link of note: Victorias Dirty Secret
(At http://www.victoriasdirtysecret.net/)

The Energy Foundation awards grants and takes direct initiatives in the electric power, buildings, transportation, climate, and national policy and analysis sectors. In partnership with the Packard Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation, it administers the China Sustainable Energy Program. The foundation’s geographic focus is the U.S.and China.

Web link of note: The Energy Foundation
(At http://www.ef.org/)

I’m using .bash. For whatever reason, it doesn’t detect aliases!

This bit me on the ass recently: a party who shall remain nameless had the default grep aliased:

alias grep='grep -i'

Yuck.

So when I searched for some debugging info, I got thousands of lines of false positives. Very bad.

But when I did a “which grep” it just told be the location of the executable. Not that it was aliased. So it looked like my grep (bash on debian) was broken!

What I wanted for which is:

• if there is an alias, display the alias
• if not, display the path of the executable

So the magic command to make which behave like it should is:

alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --read-alias'

Just kidding. What that does is “crash your bash.” Who knows why. Crebbs told me that’s what it was (so much for nameless) and I almost locked myself out of my computer.

Turns out the “magic” command is simply

type

which is built in to bash. Gah!