[sionnsar]

It was out of desperation. I too was facing the mess of passwords, and getting concerned about the wisdom of, say, registering with a site using the same password as the e-mail account where they will "verify" my registration.

My two-rule algorithm actually broke down at work, where they now require periodic changes and won't let you use the past 7 or so passwords. But I fixed 'em, I did, I developed a third rule for these situations. *\;-)

[Tax-chick]

We had to change passwords regularly where I worked, too. I went through all the 8-letter states, 8-letter vegetables, 8-letter country singers, etc.