However, this is prone to being truncated by sites / software that only allows or uses the first 8 characters... Another method that I have used in the past is

However, this is prone to being truncated by sites / software that only allows or uses the first 8 characters... Another method that I have used in the past is leet-speak (oh look at me, aren't I cool - cough, cough), so I just used my name and converted it: Haitsma became H41t5m4, very similar to a random string, yet very memorable (depending on your interpretation of leet-speak, of course)