Today I feel really optimistic. Last night I saw a friend and we discussed loads of things, which sparked some ideas and most of all a lot of determination. I always pity the lack of capital to do a certain business, or the lack of knowledge to pursue another idea, or lack of skills to go after one of the many web-based projects going on in my head.

But today I feel optimistic. And all the things above are just a very peculiar and subtle type of excuse. And I hate excuses. So in today’s cheerful and determined mood I decided to cut the crap and put my efforts into things I can do, because they don’t need a heap of money to get started, nor specific skills that I don’t have (well, that’s arguable, but I’m a dreamer). Maybe the enthusiasm will wear off tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow I will feel pessimistic. Or apathetic perhaps. Who knows. Life is a roller coaster of emotions. Otherwise there must be something wrong. It may be not worth living.

So I thought of a little silly idea. My own personal Mood Tracker®. No, it’s not part of the things I want to get done as said above, it’s just a trivial but perhaps funny/informative thing. How does it work? Everyday I will tweet about my mood, trying to stick to standard sentences. For example: “Today I feel optimistic. Life is beautiful”. Tomorrow it could be the same, or “Today I feel pessimistic. Life sucks” and so on… you caught my drift. All hashtagged #moodtracker of course. Let’s exaggerate, I’ll hashtag the mood as well, yeah! Today I feel #optimistic yeah! Ok, I’m being silly, I’ll stop now…

Anyway, why should I do it? Well, because I find it funny and after all I’m feeling optimistic today and everything makes sense. Oh, then perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that today I feel irrational, but that’s another story.
On top of that I may want to collect the data at some point and use the power of Excel to create… don’t know… maybe a shiny pie chart? Yes, a pie chart… I like that.
And perhaps someone else will follow the example and use the hashtag #moodtracker to clutter your twitter feed fill your heart with very interesting snippets of how they feel that day. Awww….

Let’s get the ball rolling…

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Note: I hope no one believe I really trademarked Mood Tracker :)

Coincidences can be quite ironic some times. Take today’s news about Germany’s defence minister resignation after being accused of plagiarism. His name? Karl-Thodor zu Guttenberg. The accusation (confirmed by him)? Copying his PhD thesis from other sources. The irony? Herr Guttenberg’s last name is just one more letter than the more illustrious inventor of mechanical movable type printing, Johannes Gutenberg.

It must be the name. It must be.