You need to get more paranoid about how to generate your password. It's the key to your online identity. It's pretty important we get it right.
So here's my tip on how to make things a bit harder for the Baddies.
Pick a "seed" as one part of your password. Use something you'll remember but with some kind of variation to make it not English. It shouldn't be something someone can find out about you like a Pets name or your middle name. As an example, you could use the initials of a movie you love. Let's pretend mine is "The Empire Strikes Back". My seed password is TESB. Add some punctuation to it to make it a bit longer. I'm going to add $ and ! - so now my seed is $TESB!
Now all I have to do to give myself a new password for every site I use is to use the name of the website plus my seed. So if I had a Gmail account I could use "gmail$TESB!" or for Twitter I could try "twitter$TESB!". These are long passwords with no real English to them. Much harder for the grinders to crack.
Of course - don't use my specific example. You can come up with your own. But note how using a seed makes it easy to "remember" your password because even if you do forget it you know the formula and can work it out!
Let me know how you go.
