Symbolized Acronyms -- The only way to go (Score 1)

Any Idiot can simply pound away at the keyboard to produce a random alpha-num, the trick is remembering it for several different accounts, and changing it LOTS. I like to use what I call 'symbolized acronyms'. For instance: if your favorite novel is Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' you could 'achronize' the title/author to produce 'NS SC' which, of course, sucks for a password. However, if we then 'symbolize' it: i.e. 'snow' sometime looks like a '*' character, toss in a dash or an underline, and a few other appropriate symbols, we get out: 'NS_*Cr@s'. This can be read as (and remembered as ) (N)eal (S)tephenson's (_) (*)Snow (Cr@s) Crash.

Scads of titles can be converted in this way. Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Number of the Beast' converts nicely to 'RaH#B'; intersperse a quick 666 to get '6RaH6#B6' etc. etc. ad nauseum. As one can tell, these look awfully like random keyboard pounding, but are much easier to remember. If someone really tries though, one could make a password-cracker specifically for this algorithm, but it would take some serious effort to do.
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