[laptop-man]

I always recommend a easy to remember sentence as a password.

with spaces, punctuation, some sort of capilatiozation scheme (cap every last letter, or every other ,etc) and throw a number in there.

lot easier to remember than 32 random bits.

purposely misspelling something, adding spaces, and your own cap scheme make it a secure password.

[pflenker]

What works great for me is using _songs_ , ideally a sentence not directly from the chorus of a lesser-known song, complete with punctutation and some obvious replacement rules (such as `and` -> `&` ) . The reason why this works so great is that many people have some obscure song "in them" that they know by heart but which are not super widely known.

I only had to change one of my passwords once when my coworkers discovered I was reliably whistling "Stayin' alive" after logging in.