Pick any word that has 5 or more letters and contains (but does not start with) the letter "a"... then pick a 4 digit number (such as would correspond to a date) then combine them, but capitalize the first letter and replace the "a" with an @ symbol. Example: Frid@y2011 or Alex@ndra2302... because these passwords are over 8 characters, contain capitals, symbols and numbers, they are almost impossible to crack without the aid of a supercomputer... yet they are very simple to remember. (Tip: If you are creating a Windows login password, add five spaces to the end of your password, this will make it even harder to crack (by increasing password length to at least 14 characters) and additionally, since spaces are not typically allowed in passwords, I would guess that most hackers are not even including them in their brute-forcing character sets)
Considering the processing power of a modern high-end computer, the password "Frid@y2011" would take just a little over 600 years to crack via brute-forcing... pretty good, considering that it is such an easy to remember password!
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