I downloaded dev slice too...
and it looks OK, I'm missing a couple of channels completely (geographic, BBC, TCM & MGM i think) but a lot better than nowt!
I spot checked a bit with the listener and couldn't find any faults.
Good suggestion to mirror the slice file MrGadget, why don't you just set up to grab it every day so if the main site falls over there will at least be a slice available even if a day old... (Was good to catch up on Fri at the bard BTW, the big wide world must be agreeing with you...!)