I just wanted to add that some people at the Bioware forums discovered that the Dr Pepper codes are reusable and you only need to create a different account to get each one of them for free. Here is the link.
Posted it at my Twitter account so retweet to all your friends before they realize their mistake.

And i should say that it works fucking well too ! Got the 3 items ! Thanks for the tip !

http://twitter.com/masseffect2/statuses/8601887217
free dlc incoming. Probably something small and useless

Horse -- I mean ship armor!

Nah the ship armour was very effective
Also even with spending a bucketload of mined resources, it was still cheaper than horse armour

I enjoyed playing Mass Effect on the XBOX 360.
Want to get Mass Effect 2 but being that I'm on unemployment (lost my job not long ago. Unemployment rate in my area is about 10%), can't afford to get the game right now.

Well in a strange way not being able to get it yet is an advantage, you'll be able to get the game of the year edition with the DLC AND you'll have less time to impatiently wait till ME3
That or just have a look for a cheap copy on ebay

i got the collectors edition on eBay for $60 and the DLC armor/weapon sells for around $30 and the blood dragon armor sells for like $20 so ill get nearly what i payed for it.

I watched the "massacre" ending and now I'm feeling depressed. Never mind that I personally got the No One Left Behind ending.

1.01 patch is out: http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-patches

Finally completed Mass Effect 1 last night and bought Mass Effect 2 from a retail shop early this morning.
Can't wait to see what happens when I port my save game from Mass Effect 1.

Be sure to register your game so you can get all the free DLC goodies. The DLC is nothing too crucial so far, but it's nice to have and you can access most or all of it as soon as you finish the first mission or two.

Thanks will do that.
I am having some issues with Garrus after Blue Sun wave of attack, Garrus seems to be stuck.

It happens quite often. It's irritating but survivable... unless you're playing at Insanity ;)

sweet, a patch :) But I have to say, I think this is the first time I see a game having problems with single core computers :D
And also, can anyone please explain, why the hell patches have around 50MB or more in the last few years? In those few changes I really don't see 50MB of data. Did developers simply get lazy to program file updates and the patch downloads full-sized files that got updated?