there's an endearing habit justin hall has of shoving you aside, dow at your computer and reconfigurin everything for your own good. changing your default settings, arranging your desktop using helpful features you didn't know about. in a sense, hall changed the defaults of the web itself. in its formative stages, he turned it into an arena for youthful self-exposure. he put on a defiantly outrageous show, attracted a following and demonstrated how easy it was to do both. he took a medium that had been conceived as a repository for scholarship and scaled it down to personal size, then he took his confessions and intimacies and blasted them out to the whole world. the web was what made all this possible. but justin hall made it the norm, the expected, the default. so anotherioneerho shaped blogging as we know it today was david whiner. whiner was a sofare developer who started an email newsletter in 1994 because he felt the tech industry press did a lousy job. he felt the rise of the internet meant the participants in the industry didn't have to depend on these trade publications to tel

justin berk. >> 5:05. we showed you maryland's most powerful doppler radar. we'll have an update after the commercial, because heavy rain rolling through parts of baltimore and harford county. look at perry hall middle school, 63 degrees. they've already received almost a quarter-inch of rain and yes, plan for some showers today as the kids are heading to the bus stop. we're looking for mid-60s and a little bit of rain. we'll be right back. >>> right now the mta with mark jones. >> out there now, if your ride is on light rail or metro subway, both are on time. marc, no delays on the camden, penn, or brunswick lines. and on the buses the 53 and 59 are being diverted at reisterstown and 7-mile due to a watermain break. and the number 17 bus diverted at corporate drive and international, construction on the scene. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. (announcer) they're highly trained specialists. true professionals, always ready when they hear the call... guys, pancakes! because when it's pancakes everyone's in it together. >>> welcome back to "good morning maryland" on this wednesday morning. >> meteorologist justin berk standing by. pouring in some areas, huh? >> it's raining, pouring, t

halls will be doled up in pink. >>> good morning. happy birthday -- in case you missed it, jamie had a big birthday. >> thank you for making it so. >>> here we go, wednesday weather, here's justin down? >> good morning. the cloud cover that moved in kept us from falling into the 40s, but we have a mostly cloudy sky, a breeze and temperature in the mid-50s. on our storm center weathernet, it's 54 joppa. and monkton. 56 arnold. we talked about the clouds that rolled in, showers back towards the mountains up to our north. you see pink in there? is there a hint of snowflakes back there? the radar is indicating that. i don't think it's reaching the ground but we have cloudy skies this morning. mid-50s. we'll get to 67, mostly cloudy and breezy this afternoon. >>> let's check the roads with kim brown. >> thank you. if you look at the northeast corner of the beltway at harford road you see traffic is pretty much very light and running smoothly. we have some overnight

justin berk, yesterday was glorious. >> nice. chilly in the morning. we may have our second morning in at row at least for the airport down in the 40s. we're at 51 perry halllicott city. 57 on the hill in westminster. 54 by brooklyn park. it's a cool morning, a pleasant morning. we've had some low clouds and fog develop especially north side of the city near loch raven reservoir near hunt valley and towards parkville. look for that, otherwise 48 to 58. it's a wide spread but typical on a fall morning, partly sunny this afternoon. let's check the roads with kim. >> at this hour the beltway looks great. no problems on the west side at liberty road. traffic moving smoo t