I'm a newbit(*) to actually using btc but I've been watching the development of bitcoins as a currency for a year or more.  I think it's a brilliant idea and an example of something the net can really enable that can't easily be done offline.  So I'm signing up here so that I can chat to people who have them for sale and get me some decent amount of BTC of my own :-)

(*) that was a typo but i like it so left it in