First portrait

The second day of having my Powershot G3 I went to my friends house and took a few photographs, this is one of them and it seems to me like a good one but I was wondering what other people think. What could I have done to improve it? Composition? Lighting? It seems a little dark, also the position of my friends head seems a little ackward but he was playing a game and turned around when I took this picture I think it fits him nicely since he's always in that chair in front of his computer. Anyway please tell me what you think of it -

http://a.kobaz.net/~ba​nshee/Picture%20063.jp​g

And please look at my other pictures, any comments on any pictures would be greatly appreciated (keep in mind most of them are just snapshots that I put online to share with my friends, although I'd like to have professional looking photographs.) I hope to get my entire gallery back online soon but I gotta figure out how to get apache working on this computer again :-/

I am terrible at portraits so take my advice with a grain of salt.

First, the background is too distracting. I found myself looking at the computer instead of the subject. Try cropping out the right side of the photo.

Also, the colors seem a bit off. The subject's face looks too red and the background too yellow. My portraits turn out that way also. I have no idea how to fix it. Maybe it's the light source.

I agree with Dave...to many distractions. I find my portraits work best with minimal distractions, or set a longer exposure time to drown out the background....but even that may not work in this particular shot.

Well the color is from the light source, he has very dim flourescent lighting, I should have used custom white balance, and I see what you mean by the computer being too distracting, now that you mentioned it I can't keep my eyes off it. Thanks for your input, I'll take it with a bit more than a grain of salt hehe.