Using LastPass on login forms with more than 2 inputs

LastPass generally handles common login pages with a username and password well, but it breaks on login forms that have more than those two fields. But there is a solution.

The problem

Here is the site I’ll use as an example: the login page of the SMBC bank: [https://direct.smbc.co.jp/aib/aibgsjsw5001.jsp]

The first line gives 2 options for identifying your user: either specify your bank account number (branch code and account number) or use your contractor number. I’m using the first one, so let’s focus on that. The problem is that the branch code and the account numbers are two separate text boxes, thus when I fill them out and login, then LastPass will only save one of them as username.

Getting a .jp domain

I have a super common family name in Hungary: Szabo. It means tailor, and appr. 2% of Hungarians have this family name (203,126 out of 9,730,000). Thus szabo.hu, szabo.eu, szabo.com, szabo.net, szabo.info, szabo.me, szabo.xyz etc. are mostly taken. However I recently checked and szabo.jp was available! Following a Tokyo Cheapo guide I found Star Domain and bought the domain there for 2560 yen/year. (Star Domain has a referral program, so if you use this link, I might earn a little money.)

I already had hosting elsewhere, so I only needed the domain and Star Domain has a pretty straightforward DNS configurator. I read that only people in Japan can register .jp domains, so I expected some verification, but only my phone number was checked and after I paid for the domain, I could use it immediately.

Most part of the site is text based, so Google Translate makes it possible to use it without knowing too much Japanese.

Times Car TCP test

I’ve been using Times Car Share for almost half a year now, and totally love it. I’ll write a separate post about it, but yesterday I took their online quiz for some extra TCP points. As I was googleing some of the questions, I found an older set of questions, so I decided to share the latest ones.

I still think that you should try to complete the quiz alone, as it is used to ensure you are aware of how to use the service properly, but if you failed or just want to double check some answers, here they are.

Revive this blog

After being rejected from ADDress, I abandonded this blog and focused on my blog in Hungarian. However a lot has changed recently, and I feel the need of a place to publish in English. Thus I decided to reuse this blog, but shift the focus from the original digital nomad life to more general life in Japan with occasional tech related articles. For this reason I also got a new domain name: szabo.jp. Szabo (read as サボー) being my family name.

Enjoy!

No ADDress for me

So I had the screening/service-explanation interview for ADDress on August 1. Everything seemed fine, and they asked me to send an email with the desired start date, which I did right away. In the call they said the next step is signing the contract, so I was waiting for that, but they didn’t get back to me. It’s summer and people are going on holidays, so I didn’t worry in the first week. After 12 days, on August 13, I sent them a follow up email, which was also left unanswered.

I looked for a phone number on their site, but couldn’t find one. So on August 18 I went back to the interview scheduling form and scheduled an other interview for August 20. Later that day they sent me an email saying that unfortunately I failed their screening process and that they won’t provide more details on the reason:

検討の結果、誠に残念ながら今回の入会を見送りせていただくことになりました。
今回はご希望に添えず大変申し訳ございません。

ADDressのコリビングサービスは他の会員様と共同生活をする場の提供をしております。
複合的な観点から弊社独自の入会基準を設けております。今回の見送りについて基準の詳細をお伝えすることは出来かねます。大変恐縮ですが、ご了承いただけますと幸いです。

In the email they also said that because of this they are cancelling my second interview booking. I was pretty disappointed, when I first read the rejection. Then I started thinking about what to do next, and came up with a plan, that is in some respects even better than the original plan with ADDress. But that's a topic for a later post. Overall they had all the rights to reject my application, however the way they did was rather unprofessional. I wonder how long would have it taken them to tell me if I would not have scheduled the second interview.