Slow change coming. Wednesday January 25, 2012

Broadly it seems as though there are two different ways in which a car can go kaput.

There's the one in cartoons where all four wheels fall off simultaneously, dumping the vehicle into the dirt.

Then there's the other insidiously creeping way where day by day, bit by bit, a squeak turns into a rattle, which turns into a grinding, which ultimately stops your car starting.

Moodscope's new graph (which also - hooray - now works on non-Flash devices such as iPads) may just provide you with the evidence that your own mood can change in a similar style.

Whereas we only used to give you a view of each calendar month, you can now conjure up a chart of your data over any period of your choice.

This makes it far easier to see the ebbs and flows, and in some cases you may be as astonished as I was to see how glacially slowly mood can change (both for the worse or the better).

Although it can sometimes seem that your score mildly oscillates about a fixed mark, longer-term trends can be eye opening.

Of course the opposite can also be true. An unexpected misfortune can send you crashing, while some delightful event can make your heart sing.

For me, one of my graph's biggest comforts is to show me that no bad time is for ever and, just as scores can go down, so will they also go up.

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