Good post to begin with. These are exciting times. We're all fortunate to get in at the beginning of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin wallet is good. USB is better. Paper wallet/writing it down on paper is by far the best.
I don't have too many bitcoin but hopefully in the future they will grow in value so much that I will have no choice but to put the private keys in a physical safe.
Here's to hoping.

All the reading I've been doing on the rest of the forum has lead me to believe that I started GPU pool mining wayy too late unfortunately.
The mining difficulty will increase an immense amount in the following weeks.

The way that I found the pool that I am a part of was simply googling it. I have a Macbook Pro and so therefore I was slightly limited to what pools I could join. I found one that would work for my situation and went from there. No problems so far and have seen small profits!
And yes a bunch of miners crunch the numbers together, and the profits are divided up according to the rules of the pool you're involved in and how many people are a part of the pool.

The Clark Moody site is a great tool to keep track of current prices.
It aided me in buying a few bitcoins when it was down at $51 recently and now its up to $116!

Hopefully over time I will see a much greater return on this small investment.

I appreciate smaller posts like this, informative and to the point.

If you don't have a big rig devoted to mining only, I would recommend joining a pool. It is consistent but small amounts of money.
Can't really complain since the computer is doing all the work. 

Hey,
I've been watching Bitcoin prices and reading through this forum a lot recently.
I'm excited to see what Bitcoin will develop into in the future.

I used bitinstant for my first bitcoin purchases and it worked great. Keep up the good work.

This is a great post (at least the first couple pages) for someone new to Bitcoin like myself.
I'm glad it was one of the first posts that I read on this forum.