Sorting things out

I recently packed up everything I own and moved. I'd lived in my old place for about nine years and I have the packrat gene on both sides of the family tree, so I had a lot of crap to sort through to figure out what to move and what to trash, as well as which box what should go in. Now that I'm here in the new place, I've had to sort through the remaining stuff to figure out where it all goes. So you might appreciate that sorting has been on my mind a lot lately. (See? It's a topical tie-in. I don't do those often, so I hope it wasn't too awkward.)

I've also been working on an application that does a lot of sorting to prioritize tasks in a workflow. These items often need to be sorted based on multiple criteria, such as how long an application has been waiting for approval, how many times a customer has been called recently, etc. We also have to sort names that have anywhere from two to four components (Hispanic names can have both paternal and maternal names instead of just a surname).