created my first icon: feedback?

I taught myself how to make my first icon today.
My dad has this external hard drive and he has a mac mini icon for his mac mini, so I thought it would be cool for him to have the picture of his external drive for that icon. I searched and couldn't find any premade that matched, so I thought I'd learn to make my own.

Started with an image from google and used Elements 2.0. I'm a novice at this stuff so it took me a bit, but it was fun. The hardest part was getting rid of all the white stuff around the edges. I used the magnetic lasso tool and had to do a couple of passes. Does anyone have better suggestions on how to do that?

anyhow, I just wanted some feedback to see what you guys think of my first attempt. Thanks

thanks for the ideas guys. I'll give that a go on my next attempt.

dogbone said:

Looks fine, but it bugs me a bit that it is falling over.

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I tried rotating it a bit, but then the feet look like they are at an angle and I think it looks worse. Anyone have ideas to correct this?