Ah, I see
I just now noticed that there is both a “visual” and an “html” mode for writing posts, which explains why my html was showing up in my text (I was unintentionally using the visual mode so WordPress thought I meant for my tags to be taken literally). Sorry, but I think if you’re reading via a feed reader all my posts will show up as new again now that I’ve edited them.
And along the lines of site details, it really kills me that I have not yet personalized my site at all, that I have not yet even changed the tagline below my title, nor have I managed to import my links, not to mention actually customizing anything. Sigh, maybe some day soon I’ll find a few minutes.