Since I don't think the show is broadcast in the UK I guess your colleague doesn't watch the show. But maybe you can ask him if he was a singer in an earlier life. :)

Hee, I might! At the moment he lives on his own with 4 computers that are in a network.

I want to learn to make animated icons - I know the basics of making them, but I laways wonder what tricks some people use to make them so .. smooth. But your icons rocks - some of my friends commented on loving it!