William Clifton
This website is just a supplement to my main CV.
Last Update: 13-May-2026
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Since February 2025, I have partaken in Care Trade's 'Job Seeker's Plus' programme. I have received a lot of support from these lovely people.
Volunteering
Volunteering
Since Friday 28th June 2025, I have been volunteering with the organisation Power To Connect, which is an organisation funded by the developers of Battersea Power Station (if not mistaken).
The main roles involve either working with a team to help deliver used computer equipment to those who need it, namely schools and the elderly, and the other role, which is what I have started with involves working with a team of people at Tooting Library, helping mostly elderly people learn how to use a computer and/or their phone, if they ask about it. Most people who work with PtC use an online programme which helps them learn about using the computer.
My first session involved helping an 83-year old black man (who will remain anonymous) go through the website learning about spreadsheets, and I worked with him to show him how to use the very basics of Microsoft Excel (the online program did not replicate Office 2007 or newer, but rather the obsolete Office 2003 and older, and the default UI of LibreOffice Calc). Then I showed him how to uninstall apps on his Android phone, showed him how to login to his Yahoo! account on the library computer, and I tried, but failed to talk him through about what the 'Reply', 'Reply All', and 'Forward' feature in Emails is.
My end goal of employment, via an apprenticeship, or similar in IT, is to end up providing highly-skilled IT support, likely in the role of cybersecurity or similar. I do not know how I will get there, but I hope that one day, I will.
My Main interests / knowledge base:
My Main interests / knowledge base:
Computers Hardware/Software (less so for Programming / software development)
Linux > Windows, macOS or any BSD-Derivative
Windows 10 Mobile is less-addictive, in-terms of UI design than Android™ or iOS™, which is why it failed.
Transportation (Buses, Trains, Cars)
{GWR Broad gauge is superior to the 'Standard' track Gauge of 1435mm}
{Pre-worboy's standardised road signs are prettier and more unique internationally than the rubbish the Worboy's Committee designed in the 1960s}
Not all of Dr. Richard Beeching's railway reforms of the late 1960s were bad. It is good that Britain's Railways were reformed. The 1948 nationalisation was not so good.
Politics - I refuse to support the 5 major parties in England. Voted in 2024 for the Heritage Party (who came last in my constituency)
And my favourite music is Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells from 1975. The two other albums in this series (1992 & 1999) is also very good. Ommadawn and Incantations is also very good.
Below are some of the videos I like the most:
(I am marginally interested in Economics, although I only have an extremely surface view of Economics, and have no plan to become an Economist)
An old British Railways advertisement for the 'Intercity 125' High-Speed passenger railway service
A video on how Onion Routing, and the TOR network by Dr Mike Pound via Computerphile
360° video on the 2020-2023 Lockdowns by Professor Anthony Davies
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