Truthfully, it looks more like news than a meditation to me, even if not by much. I'm glad you stuck it in Meditations anyway, though, since I probably wouldn't have seen it this morning if you'd stuck it in News instead. I check Meditations a lot more often.

I'm pretty keen on Class::CGI, as you've described it, and will be looking into it in more depth. I'm a fan of simplicity when it comes to stuff like this. I guess you could call it the "utility" approach: write stuff like it's a simple utility that "does one thing well" rather than a huge "feature-rich" application suite that does a whole long list of things to a strict standard of mediocrity with an interface too complex to even dream of really mastering.

Maybe this is just my unixy bias showing through.