cygwin

In case you didn't know, cygwin is a nifty unix emulator you can run if you are on windows and want to reuse shell scripts, etc. in a development environment.
Today's tragedy was that I had to manually run my ".bashrc" in order for it's settings to take effect.  Turns out that in cygwin, I needed a file named ".bashrc_profile"
Oh well.
http://serverfault.com/questions/19495/why-is-my-bashrc-not-read-under-c...