If 2014 was the year of security breaches, I believe 2015 may well be the year security and privacy catch up with our needs.

As part of re-arranging my online presence, the purchase of two new domains was part of the plan.

The fifth part in the series bringing my telecommunications in-house. This article will cover call recording in Asterisk 13.

This article is going to detail my move from Sky Broadband (was O2) to Virgin Media.

The third part in the series bringing my e-mail in-house. 7 months spam-free.

The fourth part in the series bringing my telecommunications in-house. This article will cover setting up my Digium D70 with Asterisk 13 LTS.

The third part in the series bringing my telecommunications in-house. This article will cover getting Asterisk 13 LTS working with WebRTC.

The second part in the series bringing my telecommunications in-house. This article will cover installing the latest Asterisk LTS release.

The first part in the series bringing my telecommunications in-house. This article will cover getting Asterisk working on my Home Server.

The second part in the series bringing my e-mail in-house. Getting DNSCrypt functioning on the LAN will be the main focus of this article.

Stupid laws drafted/created by stupid people. This article is the first (possibly of several) detailing the steps I have taken to take control of my e-mail services.

The new website code has become unwieldy. With my Old PC now set-up as a development web server, it is time to start on the refactoring.

The new website code has become unwieldy. It is time to use my Old PC to set-up some form of web development environment.

My old PC has just been sitting there for several years. I have been meaning to give it purpose for a while now, and have finally decided it will be better suited to some of the things I want to do that my Raspberry Pi just can't hack.

The style of the site may or may not look familiar depending on which of my sites you have visited in the past.

Something I have wanted to do for a while (and the aim of this site) is to bring all of my content under two new sites - WatfordJC.UK and JohnCook.UK.

On 26th February 2014, MEPs from the East of England region (among others) passed the Tobacco Products Directive including Article 18 which means once it enters the UK and other EU countries' statute books it will be impossible to source e‑liquid with a concentration greater than 20 mg/ml (milligrams of nicotine per millilitre) from within the EU unless someone applies for a marketing authorisation (MA) for that product. Such an MA being granted is unlikely.

Therefore, once my supply of 72 mg/ml e‑liquid has been used, and assuming I don't stockpile before the legislation comes into effect (2015? 2016?) I will have no choice but to either (a) take up smoking again, or (b) buy questionable quality e‑liquid from China. Vaping is already more expensive than smoking would be for me, and this legislation will make vaping unaffordable to me.