My work password had to be updated every six months. It had to have a non-alphanumerical character (!@# etc.) as well as at least one capitalized letter and one number. I just went up the keyboard changing the !@# etc. When I was fired I was on my third round.

Timelies all!

I'm so sorry, Lee.

My general password standard is to pick a word (say, paragraph), and then replace all the as with 6, . or *s, if punctuation is required and if both are required I get something like p2$2f$2ph, and that password will continue to be all paragraph related, just swapping out the replacement characters, and maybe the timekeeping password will be a similar set of variants on eternity,

I am a crazy obsessive person. I missed a call from the doctor's office with my cholesterol test results because Caller ID just said "Incoming call" (if there's no actual phone number/name, I let it go to voice mail, especially after 5:00). And who expects their doctor's office to call after 5:00? So I can call tomorrow to get the results.

But because I am crazy and obsessive, I've decided that "I would like to discuss your results with you" means either (1) Oh my god your cholesterol has gone up to 500 and your heart is going to explode right now, OR (2) Your cholesterol went down to 160 and we would like to give you a gold star for eating all that oatmeal.

I just can't decide which.

t edit It's probably more like "Hey, your cholesterol went down/up by 2 points. Way to maintain."

Late last year, our whole network here at work crashed. In the process of recovering it, everyone was issued passwords of random strings of characters. I found that the one they gave me was surprisingly easy to bang out on the keyboard, so I've kept it. Just change the numbers on the end.

That's really my main criterion for a password: how quickly can I reliably type it out? A good password can save you milliseconds in your day. Milliseconds, I say!

I still use the random-string password I got for Lotus Notes ~10 years ago. I favor passwords that I can type entirely with my left hand, for speed of banging it out.

Shows! Shows to watch! On my teevee!!

I use some work passwords to remind me I need to leave there. My current one is: Timetogo

Back when I had a Palm Pilot there was a very primitive program for taking notes by writing with your stylus -- totally useless program, really. BUT, I would save my passwords there, written out in cursive. I figured what are the chances of hackers digging into your pictures to figure out your passwords?

I have a password I invented in college that is The BEST! Especially since it's based on muscle memory and has all the pertinent points of numbers, symbols, and capital letters. I've had to modify it, but still super easy for me to remember, almost two decades on.