The first suggestion that he should have paid more attention to, was from the project researchers.

"List-it is celebrating its 2nd birthday!  Our project now has had over 16,000 registered users and many of you have been using List-it for more than a year.  Thank you for all your comments, feedback and insights and for keeping the project alive!   What was initially a research prototype has grown into an indispensable tool for many of us - a great success!

"Towards the future, we are very actively working on a number of new flavours of List-It for your favorite browsers, as well as improved, faster, simpler designs, and our Notes for Science study.

"Speaking of the study, if you haven’t yet volunteered for our research study Notes for Science, please consider it joining -- we are about to embark on phase 3 of our research study and we need more data!  

"Joining Notes for Science requires virtually no effort on your part, except to give us permission to analyze the notes that you take in List-it.  Your notes will be kept confidential - only the research assistants will be given access to them under strict confidentiality guidelines.  If you have volunteered already, thank you.

"To sign up, open List-it, click on the little cog icon (preferences), click to read the study terms and then click “Volunteer for MIT Notes for Science”.

A few tips from us:
1. Are you receiving “Certificate expired” errors from List-it ?  That means that you are using an out-of-date version of List-it (which used an old server that we took out of commission).

Please go to http://listit.csail.mit.edu/ and download Install Firefox (no need to un-install the old version, it will replace it automatically).  You will be notified when future versions are released.

Gaberlunzie's problem is Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 no longer has Listit on any searchable list, button or panel. So Gaberlunzie cannot download - there is no place for it to go!

But the Compute office computer is increasingly being haunted by the certificate, so much so that it is attaching to other upload pictures  style pop-outs..that then have to be crashed and restarted.

It's all very uncomfortable living with a furiously mad editor!

If any brilliant sorter of these issues has any advice, Gaberlunzie is quite happy to blog how brilliant your service is (if it works!). Oh, and If I wiped Mozilla when the editor isn't looking (agh!!!) and reinstalled a totally new version.. would that work? Or do ghosts simply lurk at another level? Aghhhh!