Homebrew PCBs

>What about the snap-off pins that you press into the hole by hand and 
>then snap off and solder?

This is - in priciple - the same thing as using a wire and solder it
on both ends. The only difference is that those pins remain better in
the holes and hence soldering is slightly easier. The same
disadvantages to using a simple wire apply here namely:

- limitts you to double sided layouts
- you can't put vias below SMD parts.
- very time consuming to solder with PCB's having > 100 pieces of
them.

Markus