Simplified Password Management

Many people use services such as LastPass to keep and manage their website passwords.  You may be able to use password storage and management capabilities built into your browser.  If those don't appeal to you, or you don't have the capability, here's a simple to use trick for creating and remembering different passwords for the sites you visit on the web.  This technique allows you to have a bunch of unique passwords that you can easily remember, and which will meet the security requirements of most websites.  Ready? Here we go:

1. Think of a key passage from a favorite book, or a line from a favorite song.  You need 6-10 words total.
   
   For this example, let's use: "Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high"
   
2. Take the first  (or second, or third..) letter from each word in your selected phrase. Mix the cases on the words, starting with a capital letter.
   
   SoTrWuH
   
3. Add a single special character that you can easily remember, and the number of characters you have so far.  In this example, that's 8. This completes your base.
   
   SoTrWuH#8
   
4. Now, for the site you are visiting, make up a pattern from something unique about the site.  This could be the first two letters from the domain name (e.g. "am" for amazon.com), or whatever is easy for you to remember.
   
   SoTrWuH#8am
   
   Repeat this last step for each website you visit that requires a password.  You'll just need to remember the passage (a line from a song is probably easier to remember, at least for me) and the pattern you have defined.  With those two pieces of info, you should be able to quickly create and remember different strong passwords for all the sites you visit on the web.