Question/Answer
“Countdown stopped working. Please advise?”
Author of plugin changed code and now it works with WP3.5.
Please follow these steps for fix:
1. go to http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html
2. download latest version of countdown script
3. unpack the downloaded archive
4. replace js/jquery.countdown.min.js with file from archive
NOTE: this is a fix for Candidate v1.0. Candidate v1.1 will contain new files.