I'm not usually one to post product announcements, but I had to point out that the Service Broker External Activator shipped with the latest (Oct 2008) version of SQL Server 2008 feature pack. It's available here.

Doing a quick "visual diff" with the August 2008 feature pack, I also notice some new PowerShell extensions, SQLXML 4.0 SP1, and a number of items for Reporting Services (including, of course, Report Builder 2.0), Analysis Services (including ADOMD.NET and some interesting datamining report viewer controls) and the SAP BI connector.

Lots of new items.

It's almost November and I'm in the final phase of getting ready for a road trip. In the next three weeks I'll be speaking on SQL Server 2008 at:

TechEd EMEA ITPro - talks on Extended Events and on T-SQL performance improvements
TechEd EMEA Developers - talks on T-SQL perf, SQLCLR, Filestream programming, Sparse Columns, and SQL Server/PowerShell
SQLPASS - a preconference day of all SQL Server 2008 developer features and a spotlight session on programming SQL Server spatial data types

If you're at any of those places, please stop by and say hi. I'll also be hanging out at the ask the experts booth some of that time. Looking forward to seeing you there.