Thanks, all for the up votes. It seemed to me that this belonged in Cool Uses for Perl, so I'm getting started and putting Part 0 there. I hope Part 0 doesn't dissappoint; it's kinda thin on Perl. Now I need to get started on Part 1 so I can get the series back on topic.

update: s/Chapter/Part/g; added link to Chapter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Part 0.