So my first rant will be about SMD TQFP soldering.

I added some pictures to the discussion (link below) and I hope it will help some people who got the SMD soldering mental block. I really don't see any problem with any SMD once you get to learn to use tool BIG enough, not SMALL enough to do that. What am I doing is not work of little dwarfs on the PCB, it is the same work that is done by some real large SMT soldering station.
Soldering and desoldering of large SMD TQFP chips is described below:

Enough! pictures speak for themselves.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.asp?m=70051
(The pictures are at the bottom and on the page2)


Added:
And, if you are worried about some small DC currents spoiling your processor, read here ;)
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.asp?m=69370
Well, the discussion evolved into ranting about some 20T Bitter magnet (after Francis Bitter), which can now make peak some 60T only ;).