Tense Around Apples

It's growing on me, too, but I still don't really like it. At the moment I'm watching it for the SCM...

The first thing's easy: copy this into your css bit (either the box in the lj customize area or to the end of your actually css file) and change the hex code to whatever colour you want (the colour in there's my blue colour that I'm using)
b {
color: #00acd9;
}

i {
color: #00acd9;
}

u {
color: #00acd9;
}

strike {
color: #00acd9;
}

The second one? That should be under sidebar properties in the customise area - something like:
Show tags in sidebar? Yes
Tag view? Cloud [as opposed to list]

That should fix it, if it doesn't let me know and I'll have another think.