weekend spent climbing

I've spent the weekend climbing at Mile End climbing wall, which is a great place to learn to climb, plenty of bouldering and a good atmosphere.
I've also been hacking about behind the scenes on this site and have a new design nearly ready and I've started to explore the MT plugins that are available. I discovered that there are nearly 30,000 words here already.
Doing so has highlighted another thing to climb, that of perl, apache and unix config. All the documentation that I can find is focused on either developing Perl apps or becoming a unix sysadmin. I used to know some of this stuff, but you forget it quickly if you don't use it.
One thing I think would be really helpful would be a guide to installing and using perl based MT plugins. I guess a minimal apache and perl guide, focused on getting MT, blosxom or even wikis up and running, and then how to extend them. Ideally it would be OS themed with a separate guide for MacOS X, BSD and Linux or Windows.