I like this... except a piece of feedback I've gotten over the years from users is that they dont like that the clock is on the layout, they have it on their computer and it makes them anxious to see it while they're browsing. Moving to the widget felt like a compromise for those folks!

I'll think about how we can make it a preference or something to have it show up there :)

And we have the "user avatar" widget, where you can choose a full size or avatar of your avatar to show up. I agree that it looks really nice in the user widget, though!