I would love to spend some time learning all what mod-perl is improving in the customization of an Apache Server. I guess that the limit is in your imagination. There is a world of improvements that one might add to this great server.

But in real world, I need to learn a lot more about perl and cgi to get some simple job of programmer. And I need all my time to learn to deal with simple tools.

So, I am leaving the mod-perl lessons for a better time of my life. It is actually more interesting to manage yourself with common things (at least, adding some new PMs). What is the rush of learning PHP or JAVA when the chances are low of finding a cheap server configured that way?