Really wish there was a way to monitor anything on solo mining besides getwork w/ the proxy
There is indeed, it's called pushpool. But it's a real PITA to build. Once you have it going, it'll log shares to a text file, which you can use to dig out the info you want/need. You can also make it log shares to the database backend (SQLite, MySQL etc).
yeah I think I'm going to set up a POC pool on a VM for personal use and play around.
After 3 days soloing namecoin with 2GH and not finding a single block I don't plan on doing that again anyways... Wouldn't be so bitter if I hadn't found 23 blocks in the week before (half at ~3k difficulty) for BitParking