I would suggest using this website instead.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc

It does essentially the same thing, except that you do it yourself with a six-sided die.
That way your new password doesn't get sent over the internet in plaintext, and you don't have to trust the website that generated it.

Has nobody invented Pasta Over IP yet? I'm sure we could all benefit from it. Maybe it could be sent using some sort of Plate to Plate technology.

In terms of bitcoins gained from generating new blocks, your expected gain will be the same regardless of whether you're in a pool or mining.

The advantage to being in a pool is that you greatly decrease the variance of those bitcoins. However you have to pay the pool's fee, usually less then 3%.

The advantage to solo mining is that you also get transaction fees when you mint a block. I don't know how much this typically is, but I don't think it's currently very large.

What you need to compare is whether you'd prefer low variance and a small fee or high variance is a small gain.

Yes.

I have a gift copy of L4D2 for 8 btc. It's for whoever gets there first (link below, you'll need steam).

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Coins can be sent here: 12bPsrUmrdfrAi6mS4xhxDsSdij2mVLs1X

If you grab it and don't pay, you're a jerk, but oh well.