I recently recieved an award from work. What do you think I bought with the money? Yep - you guessed it - more photo stuff. I picked up a Canon 17-40 f4 L lens to go on my Canon 20D. While this is not the fastest lens that I could have bought - it had very good ratings on color and performance. Here is one of the first examples that I have taken with it. So far - I am very impressed.
I also had to deal with a big issue with my computer - ended up reloading windows. After that - I had the pleasure (not) of re-loading all of my applications. I think that I am about back to where I was before. I am still having performance issues and ramdom crashes. It is working better than it was a few weeks ago.