According to CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, the concept of blogging is ten years old today. Also according to Metro Morning, the way to get host Andy Barrie to check out your blog is to mention Metro Morning on your blog.

So… hi Andy! Thanks for dropping by.

Speaking of Andy, as many of you know, I work for CBC Radio, and Andy is one of the few on air personalities with whom I’ve never worked. I do have a story about him, though:

One day back when he first came to us from private radio I happened to be working down in his area in CBL. For some reason a get-together of all CBL employees happened in the afternoon so a bunch of us gathered in a big room for snacks and conversation. Andy wasn’t there, but naturally talk soon turned to him. Just for fun I asked the head of CBL how much Andy would be making. The entire room went silent as she answered, “More than you.”

Everybody laughed.

A tiny bit offended at what was essentially a put down (I was working as a lowly tech at the time), I replied, “You don’t know that.”

Everybody laughed again and somebody said, “touche”.

Of course the joke was on me, because he was making at least twice what I was making at the time. He’s almost certainly still making more… but it isn’t about money, is it?

At least, that’s not what I got into public radio for.