well the avatar is being hosted by geocities, and that is a very very crappy host, so what you must do is save the avatar from that site, and upload it onto a better host, i will list a few hosts.......
http://www.0catch.com
http://www.future.boomspeed.com
http://www.netfirms.com
http://www.angelfire.com
http://anzwers.org (have to rename the image file to .html)