I replace letters/numbers with their "equivalent". e.g., e with 3, s with 5, a with 8, l with 1, o with 0, etc. I do it both ways ... so e with 3 and 3 with e.
Then I alternate holding the <shift> key down to capitalize every other keystroke
Those kinds of transformations are known to hackers and easy to automate. There's a good (if long) article about hacking that kind of rule-based password on
Ars Technica.
But for passwords for the less critical stuff, say for my login here on ETS, I use simpler passwords. I have lots and lots of these less secure, but still decent quality, passwords. Since I can't remember them all in my head, I store them in the "KeePass" application.
Since you are using KeePass, why don't you let it generate strong passwords for you? Your ".es7rug3rm8g" is 75 bits, which is much better than "correcthorsebatterystaple", but KeePass routinely gives me over 128 bits.
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