Get a mirror. You can get little ones designed to go on the back seat of your car. (They're for keeping an eye on small children that need to face backwards, if you're not a parent.) I like to face the window to relax my eyes occasionally (and talent spot :)), but like you I get freaked out by people 'creeping up' on me when I'm working. With a mirror by the side of my screen, they appear in my peripheral vision and I can relax :)

I second that. I have a tallscreen monitor (9:16) for reading portrait-form-factor documents, and a 4:3 monitor to the right for coding and other stuff. I also use Input Director and have my laptop underneath the right-hand screen for documentation and IM. My coworkers think it's a weird setup, but it works really well for me.

Yup. I've tried tuning in outside the car - travelling in convoy, and instructing the other driver to tune his radio to mine - but unless you're really tailgating the car in front, there's no way you can pick up that signal. You can tell how low the power is because 'proper' stations interfere with it if you accidentally stumble on their frequency. So there's really no incentive to try to create a 'pirate' station - it just won't get picked up.

So it's great news - a new piece of legislation actually 'for the people'. Brilliant!

Incidentally, you should retract your aerial if you want to improve reception - or get an FM modulator (that's wired into your aerial) rather than a transmitter. Or get a head unit with a line-in port (although that's more expensive).