I’ve started work on a project in which I need to generate bar graphs, so naturally I turned to GD::Graph, a Perl module for doing just that. I expected that when I created my first image, I’d be excited to have accomplished something moderately difficult (or at least typing-intensive) like creating an image out of nowhere. But it was too easy. It only took a few minutes before I had my first PNG. How terribly unsatisfying. :-)