contributors

AC : Anna (5'8") frolicks through the autumn mist in a land called Great Britain, but her home is in the depths of New Zealand. She has a number of unhealthy loves, including horses, chocolate and ickle people.

AC² : Anita's (5'4" with 'ickle' features) life straddles a river and the river is ever-changing. She's independent, strong and not so mindful of worldly things. She laughs and dances ... from music to ocean waves, and loves blue skies, motorcyles, ickle kisses and far away places. She has the sun on her shoulders and a smile on her face.

AC³ : Alex (5'7") is from San Diego and has a penchant for photography, beaches and travel. And coffee.

AF : "A" is not so much ickle at 5'10". He enjoys computers, especially ickle ones.

AM : Ann (5'2") is ickle in stature (more usually described as being a short-a*se - although generally not within her earshot) and a noomeeja wannabe preparing to try her luck in the big bad city. Usually to be found gently lit by the glow of a monitor, or taking photographs of ordinary objects in the hope it might be considered arty and eccentric, instead of just plain barmy.

AP : Anna is MP's ickle sister and is a part-time DJ and craftsmeister extraordinaire to boot. She currently holds court on the remote Scottish island of Iona.

AR : Alexandra (5'4" ickle little thing) isn't really anything but alive and kicking. Deadly cardplayer and psychotic temper, she'll scare the shit out of you if she isn't charming your pants off first.

AS : Alex (6', which is ickle compared to REALLY tall people) lives in Wellington, New Zealand, and constantly wonders what will happen tomorrow. His favourite ickle things are piercings, and though he's too scared to get any himself, he lives vicariously through his boyfriend's collection.

AS² : Andrea (5'4") is pretty ickle herself, hence her liking for big boots to make her seem bigger. But there is no denying the fact that she's a shorta*se smarta*se. Who should stop swearing so much.

AT : Alan remains an enigma.

BW : Ben (6'4") secretly yearns to be tiny.

CB : Charity (5'8", not terribly ickle) is known as Chair and inhabits an unpredictable weather system in Alberta, Canada, where winters are long and summers appreciated. She has a biology degree and loves the aesthetics of nature, particularly wasps (yes, a girl who is not at all afraid of insects and their kin).

CC : Chris (6'4") is a college student in New York City, and that's pretty much all. In the matter of height he is by no means ickle, but it is still occasionally fun to pretend.

CD : Caitriona (5'10½") is a sometime-wandering Irish red-haired eavesdropping reformed pacifist with a weakness for adjectives and an eye for detail.

CG : Christine (5'7") was ickle for four minutes in 1966 when she was born. Since then she's gotten rather large. But she loves the ickle things ... puppy teeth, baby fingernails, dragonfly wings. She has two non-ickle children, two-non ickle dogs and a wonderful husband.

CJ : Charles is 17 years of age and currently lives in central Texas. He considers himself a nihilist and would rather examine the smaller things in life, mostly because they are easiest to comprehend, and cautions that we should keep in mind that without small, there could be no large (eh, and vice-versa).

CM : Cameron is merely a lover of the interesting, of the insightful, and of good food and music, searching for a few ickle bits of Happiness. Oh and good candles.

CMC : Carmen (6'0", uhh ... ickle at heart!) believes in magic, dreams, anything; only what she wants to, and, believe me, it's not an easy task to convince me of anything different. Living in the U.S., her heart haunts Germany: residence of the love of her life. Her age is irrelevant to who she is; it adds only to her frustration and hyperactivity. She's female, but her tastes in life and friends often shroud this fact. She loves to read, especially sci-fi and fantasy (and gets lost easily within fictional worlds).

CW : Caroline (not very ickle at all) lives in Essex, England. Contrary to popular humour, she does not wear white trousers, gold earrings or stilettos at any time of day. She is usually found withering away at university, doting upon her horse or slaving at Blockbuster video store.

C? : Cy is about to get hitched!

DC : David (5'9") techs his way through the day, parties his way through the night and motorcycles his way through the weekends (that is, when he's not breaking limbs).

DC² : Dan has just finished his A levels, works in the mail order biz and designs, musiques, drinks and techs when he's not.

DP : Dave (172cm) has recently returned home from a two year stint in London and is now quite worldly-wise thank you very much. He misses his foreign friends immensely.

DR : Danny (5'7") lives in Essex, does not have an Essex accent (nor does he wear Adidas trousers or say "awight mate, yeah proppa!") and doesn't have much of a social life.

DT : Daniel (5'9") is not so much ickle as tiny, ickle's distant cousin. People always seem to give him clothes spontaneously, and he tends to massage anyone who will hold still. He likes Vajrayana Buddhism and 20th century art (Picasso or Garfunkel).

DY : Dominic was born in 1979 and is now living just outside Birmingham, in the UK. He wants to live in London, if anyone has a spare sofa. Oh, and he invented clouds.

D? : Dave (an un-ickle 6'2") is even better then the real thing. Cursed with the world's most useless photographic selective memory, he can usually be found fighting the forces of evil in PC Gamer land, working on the tiniest CGI details or trying to find words that rhyme with "orange".

D?² : Drinty (5'1") is an "ickledink". She lives in the UK, likes tattoos, big bikes, taking photos and sleep ("Oh how I miss lots of sleep ...") and wants to save the planet.

EI : Emily (5'8") is 18, has green eyes and brown hair, says she's boring and claims no-one wants to eat her cooking, no matter how good it looks. She can't get a guy and yet she is sophisticated. She plays the violin, reads books (which is really rare in our day and age) and loves college.

EJ : Emma Jane (5'4 3/4") is a web geek and avid cyclist. She has a very non-ickle personality that gets her into trouble.

EK : Erin (5'7" in thick socks) lives in Berkeley, California, which is ickle in an agressive sort of way. She has a crippling fondness for ickle furry mammals, shiny things, and Buffy.

EK : Ernest lives in a tiny little town in New Jersey, is good at art, hopes to be an architect, and loves electronics, architecture, botany and marine biology.

FK : Fi (160cm) is your classic "little Aussie battler", striving to bring enlightenment to the world through the medium of mobile phone ring tones. She's normally never far from a Cosmo, a good yarn and a cheeky grin. Bless 'er.

GG : George is ickle herself, bounces a lot and tends to bounce higher in the sunshine. Her favourite things include baby animals, cuddly animals, fluffy animals, her boyfriend, her friends and bagels. Oh yes. And spring is nice too.

GS : Graham (a very un-ickle 182cm) doesn't work in new media but still manages to spend half his life farting about with PCs and the webthang. He lives in the ickle city of Chichester, which is probably his favourite ickle thing in the whole wide world.

GV : Georgina (5'3") lives in Brighton but isn't sure about the whole seagull thing. She has an ever-expanding collection of fishnet tights, bucket-loads of books and an extraordinarily ickle nose.

HC : Heather (5'7") is a Canadian living in San Francisco, with a dislike for stinky food and toilet-dwelling alligators.

HS : Heather (5'7") hails from Alabama and has a passion for moderate-sized hunks of metal which whizz round and round. All for a greater appreciation of physics of course.

IC : Iain (5'8") hails from oop narth but is now a dedicated Londoner who spices up his life with travel, rollerblades, clubs, Abercrombie & Fitch, marathons and training Connie clones.

ID : Iain (too tall to be seriously considered ickle) used to hoor it with MP in that London but now does it on the south coast. He likes fiddling with HTML and is quite user-friendly.

JD : Joe (5'10") is a code monkey from London with a vewy ickle fuse.

JPD : Jonno (5'10") likes many things, both little and not-so-little, and lives in New Orleans.

JE : Jean (5'5") loves her ickle teddy bear more than anything in the world and can often be found watching movies on an ickle tv with her ickle (5'3") mommy, or spending time with her ickle (4'9") best friend.

JF : Jo is a web obsessionate, wannabe writer and lover of good food.

JG : Jonathan is sixteen years old and lives in Virginia. He has big hair, and an even bigger ego. [Take that with a grain of salt! - Ed.]

JH : Jann is a not ickle (6'2"). He likes ickle things but not ickle minds. He is originally from Crystal Palace in London but recently moved to an ickle village in Somerset. He's a web developer by trade but prefers spending time with my daughter Florence, who really is ickle.

JR : Jen (5'3" is ickle) spends 90% of life on the internet, and is probably in danger of become permanently attached to a keyboard of some description. The other 10% of life is spent going to London restuarants and gigs (usually of ickle NZ musicians). Adores her ickle niece!

JS : Josie (5'4") lives in the city of Leeds. She says that the longer she lives there, the more ickle Leeds gets. With the perspective of time, she fully expects that Leeds will be able to balance on half a peanut before the end of the decade.

KC : Katie (5'4" - is sorta ickle but becoming not so ickle) prefers the name Katriona, as it's "more awesomer and Gaelic-like". She also likes fairies and other ickle things and says that "rhyming with ickle, tickles are fun too ... especially inflicting them on others - aww, ickle things are so cute".

KG : Kylie (5'+) infuses herself with pink on a daily basis and is oft observed chronicling life through the eye of a Lomo camera. She globetrots around the world for fun and profit and is currently in residence in fancy old London town.

KK : Koen (X'x") is a 37 year old Amsterdam resident who writes for TV documentaries and the AD Film Page.

KL : Katy (5'7 and a very important half inch) is a kitschy little bitch from Manchester, who pretends to study in Oxford for half the year, and does her wannabe world conqueror thing really quite well. She believes that though the best things in life come in small packages, certain things (chocolate, unmentionables) are better when they're not so ickle. Sorry chaps.

KW : Kristen (5'10") is decidedly non-ickle. She currently lives in Singapore, which is an ickle country. She likes to travel, and is rather fond of Grenache Shiraz, Ribena and hawker center food. She hates donuts, Pernod and getting up early in the morning.

LM : Luke (5'8"), renowned curmudgeon and gig guru, cunningly disguises his higher literary knowledge and ambitions by peddling electronic teen pulp to the masses. His penchants include obscure books, music and movies ... and that wonderfully flat, arid continent tucked away in the Southern Hemisphere.

LW : Lela is a grandmother. She likes it that way.

MB : Bakiwop (185.42cm) is currently not working, but rather living off of his dear, sweet, kind, wonderful, adorable, intelligent girlfriend. He likes romantic walks in the park, romantic candlelit dinners, and romanticly hand-coding web pages.

MF : Moni'ca is a brunette. She likes fonts, particularly plain ones. Once a child, she has now grown up. Sort of. She enjoys reading, writing, and you. Mrow.

MM : Mo (5'10") works and sleeps in confined spaces and is internationally renowned as a computer whizz kid par excellence. His comedy facial hair growing skills are second to none.

MO : Martina is indeed msyterious.

MP : Meg (5'9", 6' in snakeskin boots) is from London. She loosely defines herself as a creative geek, but is actually a noomeejahoor, and she loves it. Her favourite ickle things include chocolate buttons and Hebridean islands, though not necessarily in that order.

MS : Mick (5'10") is an artist and voracious reader with a passion for visual stimulus, fine art and good design.

MT : Mike (0.001136 mi) is a caffeine addict that lives in Kentucky, I mean Houston, I mean London. His favorite ickle things are Muppets. Mike spends too many hours in front of a computer. Get a life, Mike.

NA : Nicklas (X'x") dislikes the snow so much that he wonders why he still resides in ickle Sweden. He builds bookcases out of wardrobes, searches for the ultimate Godzilla-slippers ever made by mankind and sometimes, when everyone else sleeps, he breaks character and does un-silly things.

NB : Ned (an inch too short) lives in London. He eats too many sweets. He spends all his money on CDs, books, and Chinese food. And sweets. Perhaps if he had a girlfriend, he wouldn’t think Lucy Liu was The Most Important Woman In The World, and would spend less time on Amazon.

NF : Nicole is just a strange girl with a fetish for Canadians, good books, good food and music. If you could combine all three, she would be a happy woman.

NM : Nick (173 cm) lives in the frozen wastelands of Minnesota. For someone making his living as a "computer person", he seems to know surprisingly much about beer, and surprisingly little about computers.

NS : Nick (182cm) writes things about other things. His favourite ickle things are Midget Gems, Lucky Ducks from Whitby, and Mizz Faithlet.

NS² : Nick (6') is a logistician with long pre-Raphaelite hair. He hails from the South, lives in the North and in between enjoys good food, good wine, intelligent conversation and good music. Can usually be found being geeky or decorating.

OT : Olaf (164.5cm) lives in London and designs the things that people live in.

PC : Pete (6'3") has a less-than-athletic build, likes beans on toast and that silence between lightning and the resultant thunder, and dislikes the noise made by things scraping against the ice in a freezer.

PT : Paul is 6'4" and decidedly not ickle in any respect. He enjoys throwing computers out of windows when they don't behave and getting drunk in a non-ickle way.

RB : Richard (height surpressed) is, in the words of the man himself, "British, single, Yorkshireman living in Edinburgh, born in February 1972 (so still a twenty-something - just), university educated in Liverpool, business analyst in the IT industry by profession, non-smoker, omnivore, idealist, thinker."

RB² : Rodney (5'7") is from Ireland, but exiled willingly in London. He sleeps too much. He is sometimes accused of being juvenile, which he hotly denies. So does his imaginary friend.

RW : Robyn (5'0) is the icklest of all, and one of the only contributors to be featured on ickle.org as an actual ickle thing. She can be found bumbling distractedly around London, and responds well to back-rubs, gin and tonic and strawberry sherbets.

SA : Steve is currently monkeying around between projects in America.

SB : Simon (5'10"), 30 years old, doesn't have a favourite colour, but does like it that there are colours. Doesn't have a job, but doesn't really want one, so he just keeps on fandankering instead of really looking for work.

SC : Sheila lives, laughs and mourns Mister Rogers in Ohio, USA.

SD : Simon (5'9") says, "I wish I had written that song 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing'. Because I'd like people pointing at me and saying 'Hey, there's that guy who wants to teach the world to sing!'. 'In perfect harmony,' I'd reply. 'Cause that's all I do want really."

SE : Steve (5'10") is from the very non-ickle country of Canada. He desperately tries to reconcile the outside world of running, climbing and biking with the inside world of wrestling HTML, writing and generally trying to find a way of the making money without working.

SG : Sarah (quite possibly ickle) describes herself as "stuck in Minnesota, almost close to "obsessed" with horses, and longing to return to my-so-called homeland (New York). I should have a job, but instead I mooch off of everyone else. I'm a confirmed chocoholic, and won't be changing that any time soon. I'm also a terrible writer, but I write nontheless, so sue me. Thats all."

SJ : SJ is about to graduate with a B.A. in Art History, and still doesn't know why the lady's face is green.

SM : Stuart (5'6") had never heard of the word "ickle" before coming to this site. He's Scottish, and to him "ickle" things are just plain wee. Neither is it a word that is often used in Paris, where he now lives, but if he starts saying it enough to his friends, it might well catch on.

SM² : Sharyn (5'0") is still most ickle in stature; she was even more so prior to the birth of her son. After more than a decade of being 4'11" she somehow grew and/or stretched out during the pregnancy. When not doting on the product of that venture, her tremendously ickle toddler, she can be found working as a web developer at an ad agency.

SM³ : Sarah (5'3") is a Placebo lover, has Betty Boop hair and is an MSN time waster. She also likes vodka and going out. And Brian Molko. And festivals.

SP : Simon's (5'11") life motto is "Image is nothing. Fneh is everything. Obey your fneh", and so far it has served him very well. Currently a fantastically lazy music stoodent, he has big hands, big feet, a big secret and a strange lump in the back of his head, which might explain a few things.

ST : Sharon is doing a PhD in Pharmacognosy (a pharmacy related field to do with research on medicinal plants) at the university of London. She is also a qualified pharmacist, but when she grows up she would quite like to become a novelist, or a film director. Whichever.

TC : Tom (5'10") enjoys fighting crime, slaying vampires and life as a counter-culture guru and activist. Warning: this may actually not be true. Has his own cult.

TC² : Tom (5'8") is a web developer, a motorsport fan, likes music, his cat and his dog. When he's not worried about the above, he can be found here.

TP : Tim can be mainly found inhabiting that part of south-west England that put the 'grey' into 'I haven't seen the sun in months'. He's a lover of jumping of, or looking under things and is quite ickle but thankfully bouncy.

TP² : Tim is a riddle wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma.

VG : Victoria likes to keep herself to herself.

VR : When "V" (5'4½") is not trailing round Oddbins looking for a nice chardonnay, she can be found at home in West London, making love to her cello, or writing poetry.

VS : Vaughan (6'1" last time he looked) is definitely not ickle. However, he does like ickle fonts, ickle gadgets and ickle ornaments and oddments that he finds in hippy shops on Saturday afternoons. Rather too fond of silly emotional gubbins, he is usually to be found listening to music and writing anything he can to anyone who will listen.

VT : Vlad (195cm) is totally un-ickle in all respects. He lives in Montreal, is a former kickboxer, studies Electrical Engineering and likes to play the accordion. Very arrogant, but has the best friends in the world.

YJ : Yun Joo (4'11&3/4") is a Midwesterner living in New York. She has a penchant for black clothes, large books, and crayons.