Yeah, and imagine how annoyed you would be if it had taken two weeks instead of two days. I'm glad you found this tip useful, and make sure to tell your friends who join about my blog :P hehe
What I don't get though is that I thought that Steemit only allows you to make 1 account per ip address
It's good that you mention this, because I should probably have explained it in the main post. Steemit does only allow 1 account per IP because Steemit Inc. (a company) pays for the account. And they don't want to pay for someone to create lots of different accounts to spam or whatever. This is also why the review takes a long time, since they want to get rid of all fraud and spam account in this phase.
It's important to keep in mind that each account that gets created "costs" about 14 Steem Power in delegations, and Steemit delegates it for 1 month. So if there are 100,000 new users in a month, they have to delegate away 1.4 million SP. Imagine the upvotes from this amount!
Anyway, when you create an account with Vessel of Steemconnect, you yourself "pay" for the delegation and the account creation, so you are therefore free to create as many accounts as you want.
And the most important part to always have in mind when we are using Steemit; Steem does not equal Steemit! Never forget that :)