Password managment and security

[GutPunch]

Just wondering how you all manage your many passwords and many accounts...?

This has recently become a problem for me as I have multiple poker accounts, multiple email accounts, neteller, firepay, online checking, personal websites (e*trade, ingdirect, ect), internet forums, blogrings, and a few other things.

With all these different usernames and passwords it is easy to lose track of which is which and what goes where.

I have read about a few products and some software that is sub-par to help keep track of all this. However, nothing very exceptional or great.

Can anyone make some good recomendations as to how you manage it all?

Looking for something safe and secure, and hopefully something that is portable.

Another question is how do you all go about picking your passwords? Do you pick the easy to remember password (address, last name, ect.) or something completly random? Do you have the same PW for all your accounts? Or do you mix it up?

And finally, Can anyone reccomend a password generator, or something that they use to create random passwords.

Thanks.