The diff increase was just under around a week ago or as of this reply, 476 blocks ago, next increase is in 1540 since if I recall the increase or derease is every 2016 blocks.
Yep. And if you go back in the shifts list you can see the shifts getting longer right on the point where the difficulty changes.
In other news, do the Chili Miners work with the BitMinter client?
In the latest version of Bitminter client I made a fix for the Chili firmware BFL-incompatibility, but I couldn't get anyone to test whether it works. Worth a try.
