Not for two weeks, no. but the odd long block.. yes. That being said, There has been a massive jump in difficulty as of late, and considering we still pop off the occasional 20 min block, it's not as bad as it would seem to be. The only issue really, are the very few "too long" blocks. That needs to be solved. Quite frankly though, we could go a week without seeing another one of those and still not know if its solved or not. However, I'd rather not see another for a while and just assume its fixed; then seeing proof that its not.

No, its been at least two weeks. I switched my main pool two weeks ago and switched again a few days ago, and have been monitoring them all to see if I made the right decision. MtRed has consistently made more than bitcoins.lc would have for me up from the time i switched until a few days ago, and now deepbit is doing the same. Bitcoins.lc before that point was making me a LOT more than I would have made at other pools. I would be right back to bitcoins.lc as I really liked the pool except for the no full payout thing if it was earning me the most for my mining. The best day bitcoins.lc had in the last 2 weeks was the 13th, and I would have made ~.45btc. Instead I was mining at deepbit and mined .47BTC. Every other day pretty much I would have been off by at LEAST .1 BTC mining at bitcoins.lc, which is 20%, save for the 5th of july. On the fifth of july I was able to mine half at MtRed and half at bitcoins.lc and really made a fairly good gain, even though I would have been better off probably just staying at bitcoins.lc for that one day.