> So today I soldered my first surface mount component - a PIC32 100 pin
> TQFP package with 0.4 mm pin pitch. It was perfect.

Good for you... beginners luck! I've just spent half a day removing and replacing a 
100 pin TQFP by hand to fix a short underneath the chip... only to find that after 5 
mins of power on the short has magically come back again~!

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