Firefox Discarded

I have been facing some issues with FireFox 3.*. It would crash every few minutes after running. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the problem was never solved. So, I have switched from FireFox to Opera. Opera seems to be a great browser now. I have also changed the side bar which earlier looked like this (supporting Firefox).

Flower

Flower, originally uploaded by shishir pandey.

This picture was captured in the XLRI campus, Jamshedpur. The campus has a good collection of beautiful flowers. Me and my cousin sister decided that we would exploit it for our photography experiments. Some of the pictures have really come out well.
In fact it was my first time that I was taking macros.

Since then I have taken a number of macros which can be seen here.

Working with Comodo Firewall

I have installed the Comodo Firewall Pro on my system.

I mistakenly marked Google Desktop as an Isolated Application (I do no know what it means even now). Google Desktop stopped working. I did not know what to do. I uninstalled the application and then installed it again (hoping that it might work), but it would not work. So, I googled in one of the forums I found how to change the status of an application. Then fixed it hope it works now.

All those who are new to Comodo Firewall may want to have a look at the link.
Comodo is an excellent firewall.

My Rankings...

I read in "The Google Story" that most of us at some point of time have tried a search on our names on the internet. I also tried to search for Shishir Pandey on various search engines. Its good to see this blog ranked second on Google (subject to change without notice, it might have changed as I write this). A few days ago it was on rank one in Google search but I did not take the screen shot of it then. I hope it will get back there some time soon. I also tried the search on Yahoo and this blog is ranked one there (YAHOOOOOOOO0000!!!!!!!!). I also tried other search engines like windows live search and ask.com there results were bad.

I attach the two screen shots of results from google and yahoo..

From today I shall start using Yahoo as my preferred search engine..

Some Unanswered Questions!!

I have started thinking of the basic mathematical operations again. The thought process began when my father asked me - "why does negative number multiplied with a negative number produce a positive number?".

The basic reasoning on which we are taught multiplication does not seem to work here or if it does I just do not understand how? As per how we are taught multiplication if some one says 'a x b' then it would mean what is the value of adding 'a' 'b' number of times or what is the result of adding 'b' 'a' number of times. This scheme works perfectly when both a and b are positive. This is how we are first taught multiplication and once we understand this concept we start overlooking many things.

It works well even for if one of then is positive and the other is negative. For example 'a x -b' would imply -b added a number of times. As adding a, -b number of times seems absurd (the commutative law of multiplication seems questionable).

What if we have both the numbers negative. We all know because our teachers told that negative number multiplied with a negative number will give us a positive result. But, if I reason the way I have done before I can do no further how do I add something negative number of times. After all you can do a thing once, twice, etc.... or not do at all but how do you do it -1 time?

I am still stuck with this question. Answers and suggestions are welcome.