Who is David Golding?

If you’ve voted in Victoria …

If you’ve paid a bill using Australia Post …

If you’ve received a telemarketing call …

chances are

you’ve used my code.

I earned a Bachelor of Science from Monash University in 1998 and then worked for eleven years as an analyst/programmer in Melbourne. I have designed and implemented critical systems for Australia Post, the Central Bank of Malaysia, Superpartners, Tel­stra, the Victorian Electoral Commission, and many others.

In 2010 I sought a change of career and enrolled in the Master of Publishing and Communications course at the University of Melbourne. While undertaking this, I found work with Scribe Publications as their digital editor. In this role I produce ebooks, perform other editorial and prod­uction tasks, and think about the future of the book.

Life

I was born on Sunday 13 March 1977 in Adelaide. I grew up in Bordertown and Mildura, then moved out on my own to Mel­bourne in 1995. I like science fiction, loud music, craft beer, and travel. I am married to the beautiful Penny and we have two beautiful children, Daniel and Abigail.

Read

Ashes of Time, Babylon 5, The Wire, Three Colours: Red, Dancer in the Dark, A Woman under the Influence, Hayao Miyazaki, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, The Rules of the Game, Billy Wilder, Tokyo Story, Salo, The Passion of Jean of Arc, Doctor Who, Irreversible …

Watch

Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Pale Fire, Slaughterhouse-5, Grant Morrison, Samuel Beckett, The Atrocity Exhibition, Red Shift by Alan Garner, Samuel R. Delany, Joanna Russ, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, White Queen by Gwyneth Jones, Scott Pilgrim, Pride and Prejudice, Swastika Night, Oscar Wilde …

Write

I have written an essay called No Future? The Lack of Science Fiction Published in Australia that appeared in Publishing Research Quarterly, March 2011 [self-archived here].

I am participating in the Australian Women Writers 2012 National Year of Reading Challenge.

I am on Twitter, as @digidg.

I kept a weblog for ten years called Pah, which has now been archived by the National Library of Australia. It was among the first Australian weblogs and I wrote about art, pop culture, phil­osophy, and a wide range of cultural phenomena.