Aligning image and text vertically within TD element

<td>
<img src="http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/wp-content/feed-icon-16x16.gif"/>
 My feed
 </td>

td.feed {
    line-height:16px;
}

td.feed {
    background: transparent url(/wp-content/feed-icon-16x16.gif) no-repeat left center;
    padding-left: 18px; /* width of feed icon plus 2px spacing */
}

.feed {
  background: transparent url("http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/wp-content/feed-icon-16x16.gif") no-repeat scroll left center;
  padding-left: 16px;
}

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>garethjmsaunders.co.uk</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    a { text-decoration: none; }
    a img { border: 0; vertical-align: text-bottom; }
    </style>
  </head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
  <a href="" title="garethjmsaunders.co.uk rss feed">
    <img alt="" src="http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/wp-content/feed-icon-16x16.gif" />
    My feed
  </a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

<td>
   <img src="http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/wp-content/feed-icon-16x16.gif"/>
   <span class="feedTxt">My feed</span>
 </td>

 .feedTxt { line-height: 20px; } /* Or whatever the height of the image is.  Adjust as needed. */

<td>
<table><tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td><img src="path_here" /></td><td>my feed</td></tr></table>
</td>