The current health reforms and the proposals for the twelfth five-year plan bring great news to the Indian health insurance sector. Traditional focus on the supply side public health financing only led to the further impoverishment of the Indian poor due to its inefficiencies and its inability to reduce out-of-pocket spending. The demand side financing, a more recent approach, focuses on an insurance system providing cashless care through public-private partnerships. It has huge potential to cater to the needs of the BPL population, thus incentivizing the government for its grand scale promotion. This spells fortune for medical insurance sector.

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It’s been a long time since my last post. My posts are especially large and boring for readers and writer (me). I started few posts and they are still pending. Maybe this is the time I shorten my posts to post them regularly.

This post is about usage of personal computers. I always think computers are underused by most of the people (including me). I have seen people using one application at a time. If they want music they don’t use anything else, listen to song and switch back to application needed, which most of the time is browser.

I monitored my own usage of system at office for one month. Apparently I use less than 10% of my system’s memory on an average, except for few peaks of usage when Windows gets stuck.

In the process I monitored how much time spend on various application. I spend more than half of my time browsing, more than half of it is on RSS feeds and in the rest of the time major time spent is on Facebook. Windows Media Player usage is almost 100% (almost all the time).

Almost a Time Table
1) Start music (Background)
2) Login into OUTLOOK (company email),Gmail in browser(not using outlook as I need chat & buzz), Skype (+Facebook) (Background)
3) Look for RSS news feeds on outlook - Browse through feeds (priority 1)
4) Update sticky notes with TODOs (priority 2)
5) Start eclipse – for job’s sake (dynamic priority )
6) Write blog posts if there are any pending (priority 3)
7) Check downloads on Bit Torrent (optionally)

In more free time:
1) Organize files, especially on Desktop– at least dumping all files in one folder
2) Change password base –Changing passwords time to time
3) Add new RSS feeds – Best way to avoid remember visiting all the interesting sites
4) Check for new music – Grooveshark is better for trying out new songs, downloading them all is waste of time/network and hard to organize them all
5) Update Windows, antivirus


My practices on my personal system are completely different from my system in office.

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Let’s look at series of events

The Internet
Every story about Internet technology starts with US and it’s ARPANET.
I will start from the birth of USENET in1979. It is a simple and small computer network in a college campus; Users, mostly students, can publish an article on any topic on “newsgroup” of that category, which can be read by anyone on network. There were no images/videos at that point of time. Content shared was pure text and is completely free. There are no centralized servers to handle everything. It was a big success until ARPANET became public calling itself Internet.

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The first part of the story focused on how Karsanbhai Patel created a story which had been considered a valuable lesson in management classrooms for generations. In this post, we shall see how the brand lost its share in the detergent market and ended up with a less than 10% share in the last year.

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When I first joined engineering, all I know about Linux is that it is a free Operating System and I heard that its source is completely liberal which can be modified as we like. I did not concentrate much on the free part first but I was astounded by the fact that I can modify my Operating system. I downloaded the Linux source for the first time. Me being Computer Science student, my programming skills are good enough for understanding the source but after browsing and reading about it and making my own trails, I realized that modifying my OS needs more understanding of computer internals . So, I left the source for later years.

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