For those interested in some daily mining statistics about NLG, feel free to head over to http://nlgstats.iblogger.org  (appologize for the crude html, not my thing).  This has been my scratchpad to learn about / interact with the blockchain.  Will gladly try my best to add any additional info to the daily stats if it will help.  Just shoot me a PM with ideas.  If additional products are needed I'll see what I can do.  There is also an NLG richlist (top 100 addresses) for those interested in those types of things.  I'll update at least daily, just remember to refresh (F5?) for the latest info.  Chrome likes to cache.

RE: Long block gaps:  In my humble opinion regarding large scrypt multi-pools, I'm against IP blocking.  In the immediate short term let's reach out to clevermining and try to tweak their NLG targeting to avoid these long block gaps?  Based on his previous posts they seem reasonable and willing to work with us.  It is probably is more efficient for clevermining to have a dialog with one 1 NLG rep (dev?) and hopefully the information coming out of those talks will flow here in a timely fashion?   Appreciate the NLG devs are being cautious and providing more frequent updates on progress.  Investigations, simulation and analysis take time if done properly and nobody has unlimited free time.