Pick long words that are easy for you to remember.

Pick your state or town, full work phone, and favorite monopoly property(or first pet, author, or street).
Orlando5558242222NewYork

That phone number will feel a little awkward to type at first, but try using the number pad. Before you know it, you fingers will type it faster than you can say it. That number adds 10 extra characters that you can remember with out thinking about.

My method has slowly evolved over the years. I grew up on a crappy dial up connection out in the country. Our ISP gave us a generated strong password. Our connection would constantly drop and I would have to enter that password in several times a night. I kept that password and slowly morphed it over time. It kept getting stronger and stronger with every evolution. I did this with 2 passwords. One for secure stuff and one for everything else.

Then not too long ago, I discovered rainbow tables. Pre-generated LM password hashes. My passwords were not in the free tables, but they would be in one of the more detailed collections. Then I started doubling my short passwords by typing them twice. Instant 16 char passwords that were easy to remember and type. Sometimes I would mix it up and use 2 of my old 8 char passwords together. I would think password1 then password2 and type them just as fast.

More recently with smartphones and now tablets, my passwords were just a monster to enter in. One password was lnnLllnnlnnLllnn where l = lower, n = number, L = upper. A total pain when you also have to swap from numbers to letter on the key pad. My current passwords are much simpler, very fast and easy to enter, and even longer than before.

One of the passwords that I just cycled out contained 2 swype-able (dictionary) words and a full 10 digit phone number. My short one was 19 character, easy to remember, and super fast to type on my computer and moble device. Entering the password is much more natural. I can swype on my moble and bounce over to the number pad on my desktop. I work in IT constantly get comments of shock from users when they see me enter my long passwords on systems.

I do reuse passwords on sites more often then I would like to admit. I treat my email as the master password. With that, all other accounts can be reset. I have my financial password, my work password, my social password, and then everything else password. That everything else password is used on all accounts that I don't care about or don't impact me financially. The everything else password never gets changed. I will usually take 3 guesses at a password on a site. If its not my current one, previous one, or the everything password. I then request a password reset and set it to the everything password.

I never know what to put for a password hint on the sites that ask.

Identify what accounts you need to keep secure or protected. Bank accounts, services where your credit card is available for one click purchases, and your email account. use your good passwords on them and rotate them like you are.

Then use one password for all your worthless accounts that truly don't matter. You don't even need to change this one. Still make it a good password though. So if someone hacks slashdot.org, they will get access to my evernote, flicker, and twitter accounts. But I have what 12 followers on twitter and 10 pictures on flicker. Those accounts will not impact me much if someone else got into them. Yes, someone could give me bad karma on slashdot, but do i really care?

I do stress that your email password is your most important one. Most people use the same email to sign up for everything including financial accounts. So anyone that has access to your email can do a password reset request and get in anyway.

If you do a good job, it can only help you.

It will give you more visibility and more responsibility. If you are doing it for work, stop doing it on off hours. Pull it in to your job and do it during your down time. Get paid hourly on it. You will need to maintain it and fix various issues over time. When you are up for yearly review, get this project and a description of what you do mentioned. In the future you can ask for a pay raise or a tittle change because of your new job duties and responsibilities.

Should you ever leave your current position, this project will give you huge returns in hunting for your next job. Employers want to know about these types of projects and you can talk about it in detail with great confidence.

You have to coach them. They don't really understand what you need.

When I get a email from someone about a bug, I go meet with them. I ask them all the questions I think may be relevant. What were they doing, how were they doing it. Were there any extra small steps or actions that jump out. Sometimes I explain why I'm asking certain questions and relate them back to previous bugs or issues.

I think what you need is someone to be the go between. Get a tester to receive those emails, recreate the issue, then file a bug report. Don't allow the end user to file bug reports directly into your system. It will mess with your tracking data. A high number of worthless bug reports closed quickly may look good in the reports but does not help anyone.

Of the people that bought cars this last year, the ones that bought electric cars are more educated on environment issues than those that bought sports cars.

I would hope that they don't allow random wireless items on the network.

This would be a great time to rediscover the classics console games. Yeh, it's not the hot new thing but there is a lot of replay value in some of those older tittles. It's better than nothing.

if anything, I bing google and then google what I want. Because clicking in the address bar is too much work.

*on other computers of course, where google is not the homepage.

Exactly, It would be nice if all of my users were rocket scientists.

Last week I felt like writing a little code with a simple game framework. The tutorial they had was a basic jet flying to the right shooting at and avoiding oncoming items. All the graphics and sounds were in the tutorial with copy and paste code so it was quick to throw together. My kids ages 3 and 6 were hanging out with me watching it come to life. I let them move the jet around when all I had was a moving jet. They saw it as we added targets, then bullets, then explosions, then sound.

What they really loved was me bending the rules of the game. I changed the rate of targets from 1 to 10 to 100 and showed them how it changed the game. They got a real kick out of me changing the bullet logic. I made the jet fire stationary bullets and let the targets run in to them. I also made the bullets fly backwards. I would point out how silly it was and they would laugh. I basically explained that we were in control of how everything acted and we could make it as serious or as silly as we wanted.

Make a simple game but comment out or turn off all the functionality. Then turn each piece on one at a time showing them the result. Have a few things that you can tweak that the kids can see make a difference in the game.

If it malfunctions, just shut it off and call for help. The majority of its travels in the open sea don't require much precision. In am emergency, just about anyone can be guided on how to drive a boat over the radio (if they cannot figure it out them self). The biggest drawback would be that if it does malfunction, you may never know it.

A sub is another story.