I've started playing about with mining at the moment, I have 3 pooled workers going at the moment, but none generating anything significant. Currently looking into methods of using pre-paid credit cards and a real time bitcoin exchanges, the mark up between a verified exchange and local bitcoins is interesting, though the risk of being caught up in something untasteful is increased, and I'm really not keep on handing over personal documents that could facilitate identity theft over the internet. I don't care how good your security mechanisms are, you're not that secure.