Yeah, I don't take constructive criticism well, either. But the parent's correct. The possessive form of "it" is a special case. See http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html or just Google "its vs. it's". Basically, "it's" *always* means "it is" or "it has", never possession. You meant "its".

Here's my solution: I keep one good password in my head. On a piece of paper (or two - no need to keep it private, you can write it in the sky if you want), I write a "hint" for each password I need to remember. For instance, my yahoo hint is "yahoo". My ebay hint is "ebay".

The actual password for each site is the first 8 chars of the SHA1 hash of my memorized password concatenated with the hint (sha1(passwordyahoo), sha1(passwordebay) etc).

I keep a gdesklet applet open on my desktop to generate passwords when needed. The SHA1 algorithm is freely available and already implemeted as libraries in many languages, so moving to a new computer or rebuilding the password generator is simple.