I've been out of the game for somewhat a month now and it seems I've been missing quite a bit.
I'm not going to make another annoucement about the Infrastructure Update (Oops... I think I just did) because it has already been widely blogged in the community. Can't wait to run it on some of our boxes and see what it offers...
It will take me some time to go through all those emails, comments, blog posts and announcements but I will get there eventually...