I've decided to give Catalyst a try. I am not a big web-head, but occasionally I want to put stuff up on my site... and would like most of the work to be done for me, but not so much of the work that I cannot control what is happening. I was not ready for a new scripting language so Ruby on Rails and Turbo Gears were out.

Catalyst is available from CPAN -- the real reason why anyone would be crazy enough to use perl. But running CPAN stuff on Debian is a pain in the ass, more so then Debian taught me is an acceptable level of ass pain, because perl stuff in Debian tends to lag behind CPAN; even in testing.

Today, while testing the hypothesis that everything that is cool has already been done, I came across this: cpan2deb. It claims to do what the name would suggest -- it creates deb's from cpan distributed perl modules. Very cool. I will have to build up Catalyst this way.

Now... where did I leave that spare time I had. It's here somewhere.