diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_287__niceness.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_287__niceness.mdwn
index 159dd948b1..5fc193353d 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_287__niceness.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_287__niceness.mdwn
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ since the last release.
 
 Been doing some work to make the assistant daemon be more `nice`. I don't
 want to nice the whole program, because that could make the web interface
-unresponsive. What I am able to do, thanks to Linux violating POSIX, is
-nice certian expensive operations, including the startup scan and the daily
+unresponsive. What I am able to do, thanks to Linux violating POSIX, is to
+`nice` certain expensive operations, including the startup scan and the daily
 sanity check. Also, I put in a call to `ionice` (when it's available) 
 when `git annex assistant --autostart` is run, so the daemon's
 disk IO will be prioritized below other IO. Hope this keeps it out of your