not sure if this is the case, but if you have an unconfirmed incoming transaction and you try to send those coins it will be slow. Electrum lets you choose the fee you pay each time you do the transaction as opposed to blockchain.infos wallet where you have to choose custom send to decide the amount. With the bitcoin qt wallet you can change the default amount in settings I think.

also, I have noticed that when you start sending a ton of bets to satoshi dice, transactions start taking a long time to confirm even when the network is steadily finding blocks...not sure of reason for this

So I have been keeping up with the satoshidice stat info thread, and I have been stalking the whales various wallets and watching him/her win. I followed one transaction that they sent after winning that went to a wallet that had many back and forth transactions with this wallett : 1CbR8da9YPZqXJJKm9ze1GYf67eKAUfXwP which contains 45k BTC and has been active in the BTC world for about a year. 45k BTC is a lot of money and a year in the BTC world is more than most people can say they have been active. I think there is more to this whale than we actually know. I am going to follow a bunch of different transactions and see if anything else turns up.



I wanted to post this in the satoshidice statistical thread   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80312.1380 but I am a noob so I cannot. I hope if this information is relevant at all, someone from over there may read it.