I thought I would show my new Skype avatar picture which I had made the other week. The avatar is nearly identical to the avatars which Yahoo offers their users of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger so it makes me wonder who's stealing from whom.

Skype is one of my favourite web applications and it would probably be my number one favourite if they would only get the sound quality and the time delay fixed. I might buy a new headset tomorrow and see if that helps with the sound quality. But saying that, the headset I have at the moment is alleged to be "Skype approved" so I'm not sure what else I can get that will be any better. I really want a proper Skype phone but that's 74 Euros and I can't justify the cost at the moment.

Anyway, I discovered that an avatar was only 1 Euro off my Skype credit so I thought what the hell. I also really like how you can skin your Skype application so along with the avatar, I also put a rather fetching beige patch pattern wallpaper on (I was torn between that and a black-and-white zebra pattern). Being of a literary bent, I also included a quote from Shakespeare which I will change every so often.

It's nice to be able to modify programs to brighten up your PC desktop.